Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [is] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be anything from five pages on someone like Dame Edna Everage — because she 's a fictional person ( or did n't you know ? ) to thirty or forty pages for the Elizabeth Taylors of the world . |
| 2 | But because she 's a young girl she did n't feel able to question what the doctor was doing , and let it go . |
| 3 | There 's not much known about the girl , because she 's a recent visitor to Vienna . |
| 4 | Oh I wanted I wanted not being mean I wanted to get Lorna because she 's a classic example of the Bristolian accent . |
| 5 | ‘ That would be good because she 's a radical woman in the broadest definition of the word , ’ Glenys said . |
| 6 | We know about this because she 's a local lady , down in Sussex . |
| 7 | But she proved to be a highly effective change master in her organization , responsible for many successful new projects , because she is a superb coalition builder , drawing hardly at all on her relationship with the CEO . |
| 8 | Within the family , John 's father was the only one to express reservations , ‘ and not because Kathie is white , but because she is a committed career woman . ’ |
| 9 | Penny believes that Diana will survive all these crises — because she is a born survivor . |
| 10 | He can name his price and I 'll pay it because he 's a brilliant jock , but that 's it and he knows it . ’ |
| 11 | Sure it started out lukewarm , but once people saw him they went crazy , and by the end of the given tour , he had a totally devoted following because he 's a brilliant performer . |
| 12 | I have a feeling for Fat Vince , partly because he 's a fellow heart-sufferer . |
| 13 | Interview.He sez he went to see if he could help because he 's a first aider . |
| 14 | It 's also a question is n't it , of whether you appoint a man because he 's a good preacher or secondly because he 's a good pastor . |
| 15 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 16 | It 's also a question is n't it , of whether you appoint a man because he 's a good preacher or secondly because he 's a good pastor . |
| 17 | ‘ The only reason so many clubs have signed him must be because he 's a good motivator . |
| 18 | ‘ We have a name for him at home — ‘ The Joker ’ , because he 's a tremendous personality who loves a leg-pull . |
| 19 | Because he 's a caring man . |
| 20 | Wendy ; Actually we 're pretty lucky to have him , not only because he 's a whole hunk of a man but also because we 're all full time students which means that we do n't have to pay this new Council tax . |
| 21 | ‘ If a guitarist smokes a couple of weeds to get him in the mood to play no-one bats an eyelid because he 's a public entertainer . |
| 22 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 23 | Which makes it even more diabolical because he 's a tough nut . ’ |
| 24 | Ferguson added : ‘ I know he will like it here because he is a great entertainer with a feel for the game . |
| 25 | I 'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a decent manager who knows the ropes and who has been there before . |
| 26 | She explained that she was left cold by Harrelson — her co-star along with Robert Redford in the forthcoming Indecent Proposal — because he is a close friend of her husband Bruce Willis . |
| 27 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 28 | He did n't get the role because he was a prisoner , but because he is a good actor . |
| 29 | John will , however , do very well in the 500 class because he is a good rider . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Bowyer calls this man Pointer because he is a skilled hunter . |