Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
2 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
3 | ‘ Because I use this boat to travel around on . |
4 | ‘ I 'd like to change because I think good actors do alter the way they look and it 's something I plan to work on for my career in the future . ’ |
5 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
6 | ‘ I would n't buy this because I think striped shirts have been overplayed — and I prefer black jeans . ’ |
7 | Do stay with us , John , because I think this man has a good word to say . |
8 | They nibble hungrily at my legs because I have less hair to protect my skin . |
9 | I 'll get by by the hair on my chin because I have another job starting in November . |
10 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |
11 | Just because you eat blasted snails does n't mean you 've got to behave like one ! ’ |
12 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
13 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
14 | If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us . |
15 | I came here because you wanted some PR done . |
16 | It 's a good thing pregnancy is nine months long , because you need this time to adjust emotionally , as well as physically , to the tremendous changes going on within you . |
17 | Well it wo n't bounce because she got that money saved th , she got that money for her loan . |
18 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
19 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
20 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
21 | Now I do n't expect you to play like the pros because we spend many hours working on every aspect of our game . |
22 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
23 | Additionally it might be argued that with the almost instantaneous transmission of information we have these days , the impact of hearing about individuals or groups or communities of people dying is that much greater because we have less time to prepare for bad news . |
24 | The mitotic divisions recovered from the pronuclear stages are unique because they reveal gametic chromosome complements ; thus , in a fertilized egg , male and female contributions can be distinguished , and in unfertilized eggs , the female chromosomes can be revealed by parthenogenetic activation with a variety of treatments ( ref.1 , and see Chapter 12 ) . |
25 | Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan . |
26 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
27 | The Americans are cool , too , because they know most Arabs consider the plan an excuse for Israeli procrastination . |
28 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
29 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
30 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |