Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 2 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |
| 3 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 4 | When you ask , you do not receive , because you ask with wrong motives . ’ |
| 5 | Deep learning — like knowing how to dress yourself or clean your teeth or ride a bicycle , which you learned to do when young and which have entered your consciousness at a deeper level so that you rarely think consciously about them because you engage in these activities daily and apparently intuitively . |
| 6 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 7 | That was a bad time for her because she fell between two stools in a way . |
| 8 | Because we work in far-flung locations , it is very important for all the tutors to come together to discuss the programme every so often . |
| 9 | I find it very helpful because we deal with immediate problems . |
| 10 | Stopping only to emphasize that this is not because we belong to different disciplines and that several other final positions are open to anyone from either discipline , we then leave readers to make up their own minds , or else to decide that there is no monopoly of wisdom to be had . |
| 11 | This is plausible because in our common-sense construction crimes involve real people as victims ; many corporate crimes , because they fall on impersonal organizations or distant countries , fail to match this common-sense stereotype , and therefore can be viewed as non-criminal . |
| 12 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 13 | we can always get hold of the stuff here , save you lugging it around because they come in big boxes and that |
| 14 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 15 | Everyday experience tells us that a flavour mixed with some other will be perceived differently from that flavour presented on its own , but a click and a light ( perhaps because they come from different modalities ) are less likely to interact in this way . |
| 16 | Because they are copied from it directly ( with only minor changes ) , they make sense as individual sentences ; but they do not connect together , because they come from different places in the original book . |
| 17 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 18 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 19 | R and L also commute on the cube because they act on different pieces , but F and R do not commute , so the commutator [ F , R ] creates a terrible mess ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 20 | Scottish NFU bosses say the MacSharry CAP reform plans are flawed because they discriminate against large-scale farmers . |
| 21 | We know that , even given half-way decent funding , rehabilitation approaches and much of special education could never work well for our children because they start with low expectations , and are very unclear about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 22 | Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies . |
| 23 | This is because they look like three sixth-formers farting around in their bedroom with a drum machine , busy drowning in a prog-rock flood of their own ideas . |
| 24 | There is a lot of work involved in looking after domesticated horses because they rely on human beings for all their food and water . |
| 25 | Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order . |
| 26 | Capital costs have been included in our estimated costs of a bed in a psychiatric hospital , but we have omitted Housing Benefit and social security benefits because they vary by individual circumstances and thus would jeopardise the generality of our results . |
| 27 | Some are important because they supply and service utilities such as gas , electricity and water ; others , even though they are small in number , because their production keeps many thousands in employment ; and still others , like doctors , nurses and paramedics , because they deal with human emergencies . |
| 28 | We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies . |
| 29 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 30 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |