Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , I hope it sustains him on his long journey into obscurity , because I intend to make sure Michael Stein never works in the travel industry again . ’
2 ‘ I object to the principle of the PLR not because I wish to do hardworking authors out of money — I would be eligible for PLR but I have declined to register on principle . ’
3 It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland .
4 Yesterday Trevor , a former science teacher at Staindrop Comprehensive , near Darlington , said : ‘ Because I want to keep good relations with my customers I decided to give full refunds to all 147 people who had tickets . ’
5 The final list — the Outer Face — is a little more difficult to compile because you have to ask other people to be honest with you .
6 Because you need to get maximum use of your time in an on-the-road campaign a last minute change , even a small one , can have immense repercussions .
7 Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues .
8 Olive Edis is significant technically because she refused to use artificial light , was one of the first to use early colour photography ( Autochrome ) and cinematography — movies .
9 If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ?
10 Ultimately the pressure for reform came from the Whitehall ministries because they had to use local government to execute many of their plans , particularly for local economic development and urban renewal and they found that the machinery was simply ineffective .
11 Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas .
12 Many woman-centred psychologists evade this difficulty , because they choose to work outside psychology , in women 's studies , or outside academia , in practically-oriented women 's organizations .
13 Most people study psychology because they want to understand human behaviour and question the relevance of work on animals to their overall goal .
14 By the early fourteenth century , however , both king and pope were embarrassed by this : Edward I and Edward II because they preferred to invoke royal prerogative and national custom ; the pope because he was anxious to disown , tacitly at least , any such concession .
15 That means that we have even fewer uniformed officers on our streets because they have to do civilian tasks such as manning telephones .
16 Stalin adhered to the agreement because he wished to maintain satisfactory relations with the United States if possible and perhaps because he felt that sooner or later Korea would fall into the Soviet sphere in any case .
17 He rolled a little closer on the big feather mattress in the big brass bedstead , and put his arms round her — carefully , because he had to take special care of Ruth now .
18 This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes .
19 Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section .
20 In my view , Ivanov probably did not spy , in the conventional sense , during his 18 months in Britain , simply because he managed to produce spectacular results for his employers without subterfuge .
21 The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about .
22 But Ralph neither wanted nor expected much praise for what he did — he did it mainly because he wanted to prevent other children from experiencing the pain which he himself had felt , and , in the back of his mind , he knew Piggy would have approved .
23 The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different .
24 Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name .
25 There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development .
26 For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations .
27 Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades .
28 To some types of mind work at the Chancery Bar appears dull and repellent , because it tends to lack human interest .
29 I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down .
30 Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet .
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