Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] because the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book . |
| 2 | In certain cases the ordering of a retrial will be the appropriate solution where the damages appear excessive because the jury has taken into account irrelevant matters , or has not considered relevant matters ( Rubber Improvement Ltd v. |
| 3 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 4 | Often problems seem intractable because the same solutions are tried time and time again without success , whereas what is needed is a new approach and fresh thinking . |
| 5 | ‘ These thieves sound credible because the cards really have been stolen . ’ |
| 6 | This is remarkably close to the situation envisaged by Opdebeeck for the English a cappella scene , one in which directors do not ( or can not ) impose their own musical personality , leading to performances which sound beautiful because the members of the choir have been excellently prepared by their training in the choral tradition but which all sound the same . |
| 7 | The applications sometimes know this because the employer says so in acknowledging the first approach . |
| 8 | We know this because the word come ( at least with the tense and aspect in ( i ) ) denotes either motion towards the speaker at the time of speaking ( as in Come to breakfast , Johnny ) or motion towards the addressee 's location at the time of speaking ( as in I 'm coming , Mummy ) . |
| 9 | I tell this because the humility and openness to God of my friend has always been an example to me . |
| 10 | Too often , policies for the food industry get confused because the distinctions are blurred . |
| 11 | I feel guilty because the current childcare experts tell me that — in the words of Penelope Leach ( psychologist and author of the classic Baby and Child ) — smacking is wrong . |
| 12 | I feel frustrated because the political will is not there to call a halt to the violence . ’ |
| 13 | But I feel terrible because the dog killed her . ’ |
| 14 | But I feel terrible because the dog killed her . ’ |
| 15 | And have that sprung on me I I I , I I feel terrible because the communion service i is , is something I have to prepare for in myself and obviously shape the whole se se service around it . |
| 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 | They do this because the Milk Marketing Board , set up by the government , collects the milk from farms , wherever they are , and pays a fixed price for it . |
| 18 | I mention this because the annual list detailing the working year of the Royals is published this week . |
| 19 | This time I 'm seeing a woman , who is more of a therapist than an analyst ; I prefer this because the sessions are more conversational and practical and there is even a certain amount of role playing . |