Example sentences of "[be] [adj] because [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Branch Manager Ian Davies said ‘ the excitement must have been terrific because only at this point did anyone realise that Stella could n't swim and it was only Freddy and the wet suit that were keeping her afloat ! ’ |
| 2 | Sanctions on employers are weak because almost everyone fiddles his papers . |
| 3 | ‘ David Lindley plays them all the time , and they 're special because not only is the body hollow , but the neck is hollow too . |
| 4 | These events are complex because often more than one factor or person is involved , humans do not always reveal their true motives and the historical evidence may be inadequate . |
| 5 | It was the threat of disturbing the order — an order hard worked for and not to be upset because surely worse would replace it . |
| 6 | You have to get angry , you have to be violent because otherwise what 's the point ? |
| 7 | Well that 'd be fine because then it means that you 've got either you 've got your back in |
| 8 | it 's got ta be useful because instead of going you know from one sort at one end and going out the other and never being ever seen again it 's going |
| 9 | thought bream to be the culprits , but could n't be sure because so far I had not seen any prime out in the swim to indicate they were , in fact , present there . |
| 10 | Is the Church to continue for ever to be under-remunerated because just sufficient hear the call ? |
| 11 | The penalty for failure to do so was likely to be dire because not only individuals but nations were chastised for their sins , and can it be expected that He will suffer this great iniquity to go unpunished ? ’ |
| 12 | The other part would not be pleased because really he meant what he was saying . ’ |
| 13 | This could lead the promoter into spending more money on advertising than may be necessary because only 10 per cent of these expenses are his or her costs . |
| 14 | The new Earl insists the ghost must be genuine because so many down-to-earth people have seen it — particularly in the library and the corridor outside . |
| 15 | But universality would be surprising because not only the context of emergence but also that of the dissemination and use of knowledge varies over time and from social location to social location . |
| 16 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 17 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 18 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 19 | The match-guising results were interesting because instead of the typical prestige of the standard language , and the attractiveness of a dia You know a If you did R P and say er Cockney , you 'd probably get people saying that their R P was prestigious but the cockney was sort of more you know y more friendly and more attractive accent . |
| 20 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 21 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 22 | The distinctive sensitivity towards the antique that occurred in Italy is understandable because even today wherever one walks one is bombarded by fragments of ancient sculpture , remains of buildings and inscriptions , reminders of Rome 's grandeur . |
| 23 | This fruitful distinction is possible because here as elsewhere Marx and Engels are not bound in their analysis simply by legal forms ; they look at the social system as a whole . |
| 24 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 25 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 26 | The first step is simple : ( 46 ) is ungrammatical because how ? is linked to the use of a predicate qualifier while suppose requires the clausal construction . |
| 27 | Some analysts argue that the result is deceptive because only successful beaches applied this year , while others claim that the number of winners has fallen because beaches had to meet a much stricter test on bacteria in the water . |
| 28 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 29 | It 's paradoxical because often divorce law reforms thought of as favouring women and in circumspect that allows women to get away from an unreasonable husband and that kind of thing , it 's certainly true , but at the same time you have to notice that in terms of reproductive success it may benefit more er men more . |
| 30 | the very existence of any examination at 16+ ( whether GCE , CSE or a unified examination or examination system ) as opposed to a series of assessments at the right stage of development for the individual pupil is questionable because firstly sixteen has already ceased to be the date for leaving education for the majority of pupils , secondly employers look increasingly to school recommendations , college course experience , and examination expectations rather than evidence of ‘ O ’ Level/CSE achievements , and thirdly the Universities and Higher Education look for and stipulate ‘ A ’ Level achievements rather than ‘ O ’ Level evidence . |