Example sentences of "because they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 2 | This is why the rivers have many curves , because they follow the wriggling tracks of the serpent ; similarly , waterholes are round because they are in the shape of a snake coiled up to rest . |
| 3 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 4 | So-called commuter planes that carry up to 150 passengers whisper rather than roar because they use the latest propeller technology . |
| 5 | However , shared space approaches , as the Dutch have discovered , are very costly to apply to existing residential areas because they require the existing street surface to be almost entirely rebuilt . |
| 6 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 7 | Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support . |
| 8 | Their bribes failed because they misread the British votes , thinking that we , like them , are greedy , uncaring and fickle . |
| 9 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 10 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 11 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 12 | Market saleswomen have always been the most aggressive because they get the roughest end of the stick . |
| 13 | In his report , Lord Justice Woolf argues that degrading prison conditions are unjust because they contravene the immediate intentions of sentencers and the broader functions of the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 15 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |
| 16 | And then they could n't be on their own because they had the elderly relatives to care for . |
| 17 | Chávez stated that constitutional amendments currently being debated by the Congress represented a " setback " because they ignored the social grievances existing in the country . |
| 18 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 19 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 20 | We 'd rather lose some riders than have any dissatisfied because they chose the wrong holiday . |
| 21 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 22 | Authoritative directives are often rules , and even when they are not , because they lack the required generality , the same reasoning applies to them . |
| 23 | They may fail to understand or to make themselves understood because they lack the social knowledge which enables them to make text into discourse in the language they are learning . |
| 24 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 25 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 26 | The presence of its members was normally tolerated because they supported the industrial action of the TUC , 1,200 of them being arrested during the dispute , and because some of its leading figures , such as Robin Page Arnot who did sterling work in organizing the councils of action in the North East , were active in the dispute . |
| 27 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |
| 28 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 29 | However , they are names freely used by the locals and they are a great convenience , because they split the Basque country into three geographically distinct regions , from the coastal and no more than foot hilly Labourd , through the higher but still not fully mountainous Basse-Navarre , to the genuinely mountainous Soule , adjacent to the High Pyrenees . |
| 30 | They say they 've taken this unusual step because they feel the Standard Assessment Tests or SATS are worthless . |