Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
2 | It is reflected in attitudes such as " I do n't want to listen to you because I have more important things to say " ; or " I 'm not interested in you because you ca n't help me " ; or " My way is always right , you have to understand " . |
3 | There is one other point , although erm you know , it 's good that they are in the er areas which the tenants er , live so it 's er not very difficult for tenants to come and see their councillors but er er , there is a difficulty at times when er the er air the housing manager has to ring around to get the er members , who are able to sit on that panel and sometimes that is difficult because we have just three members and sometimes they ca n't all fit in the , whereas when you have a larger group if one member ca n't attend , there 's invariably sufficient there to be able to come to a decision so I think that that 's on the other side of the balance sheet . |
4 | Which means , ’ he added , glancing quickly down at the slim gold watch on his wrist , ‘ I want you to pack a suitcase as quickly as possible , because we have very little time in which to catch the plane . ’ |
5 | The other reason why women should organise and educate separately is because we have more important work to do than to have our attention and energy continually claimed by men . |
6 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
7 | This is because we have fairly strong evidence from ancient Egyptian art , showing that cats had been taken under human control by that period . |
8 | We do hope to take the board of social responsibility report this afternoon as well and that people might just keep that in mind er because we have still three notices of motion on the panel on doctrine before we reach that . |
9 | But Llanelli must be favourites to reach another final because they have so much talent amongst their backs , especially in Ieuan Evans and Nigel Davies . |
10 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
11 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
12 | Only the gorilla is particularly close to us in evolutionary terms ( though all of the top 10 animals are mammals ) , but many of the other favourites are distinctly humanoid in appearance , either because they sometimes stand upright , such as otters and polar bears , or because they have vaguely human-like faces . |
13 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |