Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One gentleman goes each day for a drink in the pub , and one of the ladies wanders around seeing people who she knows , because she 's lived in the village all her life . |
| 2 | She can not move around because she is connected with the oxygen machine . |
| 3 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 4 | Or : because she is torn between the possibility of embracing his scheme with a lover 's abandon , and the more conventional , and differently ( maliciously ) pleasurable option of destroying him by laughing , finally , after much foreplay , in his foolish supplicant face . |
| 5 | They could n't really disapprove of him , though they longed to , because he 's studying for the ministry . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because he 's studying for the priesthood , ’ said Betty . |
| 7 | And not just because he 's affronted at the idea of a dragon beating him over 100 metres . |
| 8 | The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks . |
| 9 | The grid scheme of city layout with streets crossing one another at right angles and with a uniformity of street width and building design , which became the pattern for the classical world of Greece and Rome and was later adopted in Europe and modern America , was developed in Ionian Greece from the seventh century B.C. ; this street pattern is often referred to as Milesian because it is named after the city of Miletos on the coast of Asia Minor . |
| 10 | ‘ The box , because it is situated on the seafront , takes a fair battering from the weather and special paints , developed for the North Sea oil industry , have to be used to paint the box every year . ’ |
| 11 | It is , however , easy to recognise that the choreography for The Three-Cornered Hat has greater authenticity because it is based on the folk and flamenco dance Massine had studied in Spain . |
| 12 | Mr Ibrahim al-Beshari , Foreign Minister , said Libya would continue to fight UN Security Council Resolution 748 ‘ because it is based on the logic of force , not of law ’ . |
| 13 | An alternative explanation though , would say that the US model is not appropriate for Japan because it is based on the ideal of atomistic competition between a large number of small firms . |
| 14 | Their whole scheme is flawed , because it is based on the assumption that a Labour Government will have to raise £6.3 billion . |
| 15 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 16 | This is vandalism , all the more wounding because it is authorised by the Secretary of State who is supposed to protect Scotland 's interests . |
| 17 | Sony 's position is less dangerous because it is building on the foundations of an already established physical format . |
| 18 | Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates . |
| 19 | According to age-old local legends , the meaning of the word Carno comes from a hill in the centre of the Parish called ‘ clorin ’ because it is shaped like the back of a horse ; the Welsh farmers ’ word for the tail of a foal is ‘ torir clorin ’ . |
| 20 | On the face of it , this is offering a commander view because it is reporting on the command of the authority as a whole . |
| 21 | The nail is an indirect object because it is related to the verb through the preposition — on . |
| 22 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 23 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 24 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 25 | However the pill is the method least preferred by the population controllers because it is taken at the discretion of the user . |
| 26 | Because it is used in the passive , ‘ said ’ in the Japanese text is understood to mean something like ‘ criticized ’ , and this meaning is correctly rendered in the English translation . |
| 27 | According to the Post , the government watchdog took the step because it is battling with the two companies over discount and marketing data , which it reckons it needs in order to determine whether it is paying fair prices for computer products . |
| 28 | ‘ The run is unique in Merseyside because it is aimed at the fun runner serious runners have to be prepared to take a back seat . |
| 29 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 30 | But , she says , it is a country where homelessness is non-existent and where central heating is very cheap because it is linked to the waste heat systems of local factories . |