Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 2 | Most of the limited company clients I have came to me because I am a registered auditor . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I am a pretty girl ? ’ |
| 4 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 5 | Is it because I am a bad woman , a selfish woman , the kind who chooses to stay childless : or am I an unhappy woman , an unfortunate woman , and ca n't have them ? |
| 6 | Give me ordinary people every time , because I am an ordinary woman . |
| 7 | He replied : ‘ No because I am an innocent man , a free citizen in a free country being attacked by a terrorist state . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's every need — because I 'm a desperate man ! ’ he growled savagely in her ear . |
| 9 | Because I 'm a tyrannous bastard . |
| 10 | Er , you should have , yeah , but it 'll probably arrive Friday , because I 'm a late replacement . |
| 11 | As you know , I have been wildly opposed to PEPs since their introduction , in part because I 'm a great believer in removing tax breaks rather than distorting the investment climate by introducing new ones . |
| 12 | I was asked to turn out at Coventry and I agreed because I 'm a professional player and that 's my job — but I was n't feeling 100 per cent . |
| 13 | Because , because I 'm a complete stranger so I do n't have to spend time with you at all , so you know . |
| 14 | I know I 'd be divine , because I 'm a natural cougher . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that 's because I 'm a short guy . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't want them to brand me a bully-boy because I 'm a National Socialist , to discredit me through their media . |
| 17 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 18 | Well because I 'm a single parent , |
| 19 | Er , you may be glad to know , or unhappy to know , that I 'm actually still on contact with the health service because I 'm a non-executive director of the Royal London Trust , which works of course , in Whitechapel , one of the poorer areas of London , and it 's not quite so glamorous as Guys , but actually it 's doing quite a good job . |
| 20 | I tried a light laugh , ’ Everyone thinks I have the phetam , just because I 'm a well-known courier . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Because I 'm an awful liar ? ’ |
| 22 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 23 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 24 | Spoiled by the fact that I had always been treated with respect because I was a veterinary surgeon , a member of an honourable profession . |
| 25 | The last time I went there was in 1968 ; after that I could n't go there because I was a British citizen . |
| 26 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 27 | but when I made enquiries about taking up the loan , I was told that I was not eligible for the funds because I was an existing borrower . |
| 28 | I mention him simply because his was a typical case . |
| 29 | The third prize-winner had , however , been chosen because his was a Gothic design . |
| 30 | " Well , we ca n't treat you as homeless because you are a joint tenant . |