Example sentences of "[adv] because [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 2 | Henry V restored them in 1416 , perhaps because he hoped to use their local authority , which depended on the personal loyalty felt towards them , to safeguard his rear before further campaigns in France . |
| 3 | But perhaps he could think of no words bad enough because he began to cry instead , loud , gasping sobs , eyes wide and streaming . |
| 4 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 5 | You let them in to have a laugh at them or you let them in because you want to listen to what they 're saying . |
| 6 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 7 | ‘ I lied to her to get in because I needed to talk to you about your big gamble at Ascot . ’ |
| 8 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 9 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 10 | In so far as it remains possible to approach the problem as a matter of principle , the law should be that , if a person is acting in a way that is independently lawful , his conduct should not become unlawful merely because he fails to obey the instructions of a policeman . |
| 11 | State provision is important for many elderly people , not only because they have to rely on a retirement or supplementary pension in the absence of income from employment or from an occupational pension , but also because they need the health and social services provided by the welfare state . |
| 12 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 13 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 14 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the circle under surveillance and delayed making arrests only because it wanted to demonstrate , by compiling the fullest possible dossier , that its investigative abilities were superior to those of the Third Department . |
| 15 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 16 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 17 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 18 | ‘ The Empress , and only because I refused to cower at her anger . |
| 19 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 20 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 21 | ‘ Only because he wanted to get his leg over . ’ |
| 22 | I think my father must have suffered some of this , if only because he refused to have us children christened . |
| 23 | ‘ It is only because you want to pry , to discover who writes to me , that you come out in this way every morning . |
| 24 | People who come on a timber frame construction course , for instance , will come along because they want to use the technique , perhaps for an extension to their home . |
| 25 | Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before . |
| 26 | The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes . |
| 27 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 28 | ‘ Sit down because I need to tell you something . ’ |
| 29 | But I wo n't be off for long because I 've to follow Marcus . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's set against them you know … and all because they work to abolish the slave trade . |