Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 2 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 4 | Lady Grubb 's invitations to them were always by letter , and led to a file of correspondence because she enjoyed making microscopic changes of plan . |
| 5 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 6 | The casting was still incongruous but , because she had gained enormous confidence , she began to look better , held herself tautly , lightly , and , by the Saturday matinee , gave a convincing performance of an eighteen-year-old girl . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 10 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , a sum should be allowed if he had a company car , or because he had a cheap mortgage , or because he had received free accommodation ( on account of his employment ) . |
| 15 | A dealer was sacked from one firm because he had leaked disloyal comments to the Press , and the tape was played back to him as evidence . |
| 16 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do n't think the I do n't think the D T I would have issued a investment management certificate to Robert Maxwell you know because he 'd done naughty things in the past , so he just would n't have got the certificate . |
| 19 | The only reason he 'd changed his mind was because he 'd received advance notification that there would be a choice morsel on offer that day — a boy named Garimel . |
| 20 | Peter Fallon , owner of the Gallery Press and Katherine 's literary agent , says of Dr Kavanagh : ‘ Because he 'd devoted certain energies to Patrick , he acted as if the man were entirely his . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |