Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pointless him going right through the centre because he was incurring far too much damage and eventually he would be shot down . |
| 2 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 3 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 4 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 6 | Their influence declined only slowly after the war because British military operations continued around the world as Britain at first struggled to retain her empire , and then , after Suez , fought to bring about a prudent and dignified withdrawal from colonial responsibility . |
| 7 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 8 | Many said that they welcomed the opportunity to work , and were not able to do so during the week because there was no one look after their children . |
| 9 | I 'd be all for the change because there 's logic in it . |
| 10 | She was part of an equation , nothing more , along for the trip because that was the way of it . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , ’ I say , shivering suddenly despite the heat because we 're getting into dodgy territory here . |
| 12 | Thirdly , as most of this century has produced a managerial literature based on a fervent belief in rationality and structure in organizations , power as a subject of investigation goes somewhat against the trend because it incorporates so much that is irrational , indefinable and not easily structured into neat manuals of best practice . |
| 13 | fit in with the portrayal because |
| 14 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 15 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 16 | Chapman 's final advice to Clough is not to linger too long in the job because of the toll it could take upon him . |
| 17 | Erm , especially in the war because the evacuees of course , would come along and of course |
| 18 | ‘ They were a hazard to the Galapagos turtles , they were attacking the sand cranes and also the brown pelicans we brought in from the wild because they were injured , ’ said John Dreyer , for Disney World . |
| 19 | When hearing such tales those in the jungle would become quite terrified , and I once met a group of Chewong on the move with all their worldly belongings , having abandoned their settlement in order to resettle much deeper in the jungle because they had heard rumours that the Malays wanted Chewong heads . |
| 20 | At first I could n't see a way of getting to the bus station at two o'clock in the afternoon because we were never free at that time , but my chance came quite unexpectedly . |
| 21 | It was a case of , I mean we used to start and wash them at three o'clock in the morning because t you had to start then because you 'd never get it all done . |
| 22 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 23 | Many of us are in here at seven o'clock in the morning because that is noon time over there and so we only have about half a day to work together . |
| 24 | Its 7-cm picture , which appears on a twisted nematic liquid-crystal display , is visible only in the dark because it is backed by an electroluminescent material which produces its own light . |
| 25 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 26 | We 'll go the other way down to the superstore because there 's traffic lights down at the end of our road . |
| 27 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 28 | another scenario that comes up quite often is that , somebody comes in and say my kids have n't had any food all over the weekend because you did n't send out a giro |
| 29 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |
| 30 | There 's contractions all over the place because erm and all sorts . |