Example sentences of "[noun] because he [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie said , ‘ Nick sleeps in my room at home because he has bad dreams sometimes . |
| 2 | Sir Leicester may think it appropriate to keep Mr Rouncewell waiting , ‘ opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flight of ironmasters ’ , but it is his housekeeper 's son who now wields the moral authority , for he has come to remove his future daughter-in-law , the lady 's maid Rosa , from Lady Dedlock 's charge because he thinks that position is unsuitable . |
| 3 | As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) . |
| 4 | He concentrates every second on the race because he has more than enough to concentrate on . |
| 5 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 6 | He said well he 's got rights because he owns half of it , I said owns half of it but he ai n't paying for half of it . |
| 7 | But he has got himself into difficulties because he thinks that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world . |
| 8 | I can tell when he is having a hypo because he gets disorientated and confused . |
| 9 | So , as another week starts , we are challenged to live this week as the Lord 's servants , working with humility because He deserves all the praise — not us , and not minding the tears which may come our way . |
| 10 | GORDON lets us go into Longreen Park because he likes Brown Owl . |
| 11 | ‘ Burun 's a great fighter because he diverts all his sexual energies into fighting and giving orders . ’ |
| 12 | I was horrified to read that Bishop John Shelby Spong has received death threats because he supports committed monogamous relationships between gay and lesbian people ( Homosexuality NI 201 ) . |
| 13 | It has to be persuasion because he has few , if any , powers of coercion unlike the British prime minister . |
| 14 | Bersani arrives at this position because he sees gay male sexuality as enacting insights into sexuality per se which heterosexual culture has to repress ruthlessly ( above , Chapter 17 ) . |
| 15 | His interest in his subject carries over , first into drawing and painting because he enjoys this , then on into writing about it , because he is writing about something he is interested in and at first we must not be too concerned about his writing or his spelling or his grammar . |
| 16 | A non-graduate , or a graduate ( Law or otherwise ) who has not obtained full exemption because he lacks one or more of the ‘ core ’ subjects in his degree , is required to take the new Common Professional Examination before the Final ; and this again needs a year 's attendance at a law school . |