Example sentences of "[verb] because they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't achieve because they have to choose , and the only way to get women achieving in a sort of relaxed way is not to force them with the choice between occupation success and families . |
| 2 | We do n't know what the Department of Transport have done because they refuse to tell us . |
| 3 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 4 | More than 30% of cows culled in Holland were slaughtered because they failed to become pregnant . |
| 5 | In June town employees were angered because they had to pay six million roubles commission to Jews in order to exchange a hundred million given to them in the form of bonds for their pay . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean because they want to care for your sister on their own ? ’ |
| 7 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has recently held that employees may be fairly dismissed because they refuse to accept an offer of new terms and conditions of employment ( see St John of God ( Care Services ) Ltd v Brooks and Others [ 1992 ] 458 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 12 ) . |
| 8 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 9 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 10 | Long before Plowden many teachers had rejected traditional approaches to learning because they seemed to deny the way children thought and reasoned , the way in which children could grasp complex ideas , the way in which children dealt with information ( not in the neatly boxed subject areas beloved by academics but in broad chunks ) . |
| 11 | They have been bred specially for chipping : they are not good for boiling because they tend to explode , but they cook fast and — hideous thought — absorb fat quickly . |
| 12 | They go because they need to cover some sort of guilt , I 'm convinced of that now , the more people that I know I mean fib of all people fib is now turned to religion . |
| 13 | You would n't get them at night college , because people who go to night school go because they want to learn , and if there 's any you 've got running around as you call it , will be thrown out ! |
| 14 | But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit . |
| 15 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 16 | As many as eleven thousand people have been killed because they refused to break their eggs at the smaller end . |
| 17 | It is based on a conviction that religious ways of interpreting reality simply must be mistaken because they appear to conflict with , or be irrelevant to , cherished and successful scientific paradigms . |
| 18 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 19 | Problems with the naturally dominant breeds , such as the Dobermann , are most likely to arise because they try to challenge your dominant position . |
| 20 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
| 21 | Capitalists invest because they hope to make profits . |
| 22 | They do n't haunt because they want to wring their hands and wail about something that happened hundreds of years ago . |