Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or does she talk different because she 's on the phone ? |
| 2 | Now , here 's the crucial bit , what happens after 75 seconds , if Hilary has n't finished , which is quite likely , because she 's on the phone a lot ? |
| 3 | ‘ Because she 's in the Ministry of Information . |
| 4 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 5 | That 's why our father married her , because he 's in the Navy . |
| 6 | Well I 'd like to buy before my dad go retires , because he 's in the business as you know , he knows exactly what to buy and if I have to , you know , have work done , he has this erm you know , it does everything . |
| 7 | No I wo n't Niki because he 's in the car and if he wakes up and he 's going to be so unhappy . |
| 8 | Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily . |
| 9 | There have to be priorities to meet all your needs — either because a service is not available , or because it is outside the money available — then you will be told this . |
| 10 | Even simple activities , such as the right way to hold and use a pair of scissors , may need to be shown to a pupil with very poor vision , not because it is beyond the child 's capacity , but because defective vision may make it difficult to see exactly how to manipulate utensils and objects without precise demonstration on how to do so . |
| 11 | The history of pronunciation is one of those issues that do not primarily involve standardization , because it is about the history of speech in face-to-face interaction and because standardization has always had less effect on pronunciation than on other linguistic levels . |
| 12 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 13 | The will of King Eadred ( 946 – 55 ) left £1,600 so that his people could redeem themselves from famine or a heathen army , Cnut defeated thirty ships of pirates early in his reign , and Domesday Book says that under Edward the Confessor ( 1042 – 66 ) the hidage ( broadly , tax ) assessment of Fareham in Hampshire was reduced " on account of the Vikings , because it is on the sea " . |
| 14 | It has also been suggested that people buy the book because they have read reviews of it or because it is on the best-seller list , but they do n't read it ; they just have it in the bookcase or on the coffee table , thereby getting credit for having it without taking the effort of having to understand it . |
| 15 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 16 | Some psycholinguistic models ( e.g. Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) assume that the beginning of a word is known , either because it is at the beginning of the utterance or because the previous word has been identified . |
| 17 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 18 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 19 | This submission would make a nonsense of the rule that a grant for an uncertain term does not create a lease and would make nonsense of the concept of a tenancy from year to year because it is of the essence of a tenancy from year to year that both the landlord and the tenant shall be entitled to give notice determining the tenancy . |
| 20 | This ‘ separation from ’ approach is the root of such destructiveness because it is of the nature of the ‘ outsider ’ not to care . |
| 21 | This is because it is to the equilibrium rate of national income ( Y e ) that we can reasonably expect the macroeconomy to tend . |
| 22 | Other advantages are that employees working direct for a company are often better motivated than those of an intermediary and it is easier to control a subsidiary because it is under the parent company 's direct control . |
| 23 | Now what happens in the mantle is extremely important , because it is in the mantle that we have to look for the mechanism behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 24 | To think that we should destroy the coal industry and then say , ’ Well , if we have no coal industry , we shall have to have a nuclear power industry and what it costs does not really matter because it is in the nation 's interest to do it , ’ does not make sense . |
| 25 | I have had my own opinion confirmed with the advice from the business convenor and the vice convenor , and that is that we determine that this is in fact a counter motion that you have spoken to because it is against the spirit of the deliverance . |
| 26 | The police deny it , because it is against the law , but there are few motorists who do n't believe it exists . |
| 27 | He added , I have to pass a sentence because it is against the law . |
| 28 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 29 | Whatever is near the school the children can study , and because it is near the school and the children 's homes it is important . |
| 30 | It is in a villa which you will easily find because it is near the river . |