Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing brushes for acrylic painting , I stated that , because I use an old chip pan complete with wire mesh basket as a water container , many of the brushes washed seemed to wear quite quickly . |
| 2 | I should like to intervene only for a moment because I have an important constituency interest in that Gatwick , a major inter-national airport , is within my constituency . |
| 3 | She will twist your poor rich senile arm to pay you out , because you have an airy house on the hill , and she goes home to a room in the damp and humid valley . |
| 4 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 5 | They would write a note claiming , for example , ‘ Debbie was off because she had an upset stomach ’ when , in fact , the children were perfectly well . |
| 6 | She seems to think the doctors believe she is a bad mother because she has an anorexic daughter . |
| 7 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 8 | because we have an awful problem with impact when we land again . |
| 9 | Yes , and that is because we have an approved structure plan which indicates the general extent of the greenbelt , and we 're not talking here about an inner boundary or an outer boundary , we 're concerned with a pre-standing settlement . |
| 10 | An oral macrolide antibiotic was administered because we suspected an atypical pneumonia . |
| 11 | An exception are altar-pieces which , because they played an important role in Catholic worship , were kept in their original settings . |
| 12 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 13 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 14 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 15 | Other races were therefore ‘ inferior ’ , either because they represented an earlier stage of biological evolution or of socio-cultural evolution , or both . |
| 16 | So , governmental reasoning runs , because they lack an economic interest in saving energy , such occupants can not be trusted to conserve it . |
| 17 | The terms of reference are reproduced here in full because they provide an interesting example where the overall objective behind the policy development is clear — improved financial results or , in other words , reducing the size of the state subsidy or Public Service Obligation as it is correctly known . |
| 18 | These processes have been described because they provide an active demonstration of the recent change in the balance of power between governors and local authorities . |
| 19 | Some party leaders and whips dislike the new select committees because they encourage an independent approach , but the system is now quite strongly established and is likely to continue . |
| 20 | A recent survey of BHRCA members found they had joined principally because they wanted an effective voice to put the industry 's case to Government . |
| 21 | ‘ I would think the British Government must be very worried at this moment , because they have an awful lot to hide . |
| 22 | take penicillin and die of it because they have an allergic reaction . |
| 23 | They are relying on the RCS and Romania dropping points in their remaining games because they have an inferior goal difference to both sides . |
| 24 | Many small species do so — knife fish in South America , elephant fish in West Africa , so called because they have an elongated lip like a small probing trunk . |
| 25 | All too often students have difficulty or fail in their learning because they have an imperfect grasp of some concept , or because they have not learned some particular skill . |
| 26 | They 're certainly not run with any notion of an actor 's potential and actors get unhappy because they spend an awful lot of time feeling creatively unused . |
| 27 | They cooperate because they all stand to gain from the same outcome — the survival and reproduction of the communal body — and because they constitute an important part of the environment in which natural selection works on each other . |
| 28 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 29 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 30 | JANSHER KHAN , who regained the world title on Saturday , has criticised tournament organisers for withholding his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money because he left an official dinner in Kuala Lumpur after only 15 minutes . |