Example sentences of "[adj] because [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at Damian Flint , she knew he was not different because he had power : he was different because he wanted it , fought for it , and knew how to use it . |
| 2 | When Americans see a band like U2 , they assume they are English because they speak English . |
| 3 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 4 | To the historian , this makes it more interesting because it presents hostages to fortune , and there is more to interpret . |
| 5 | The rise is particularly interesting because it confounded expectations . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the issue of where Mart goes to see his films , the observation is interesting because it directs attention towards one of Hollywood 's generally unnoticed pre-occupations . |
| 7 | Competitors such as Bernis , Whitbreads , Bass Charrington , Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons have all begun to offer carefully thought out catering packages which are popular because they meet customer expectations in terms of food quality , quantity , atmosphere , service and price . |
| 8 | To answer this question it must be noted that in sociology ( and elsewhere ) a feminist perspective appears to be polemical because it runs counter to the accepted male-oriented viewpoint — a viewpoint which is rarely explicitly articulated . |
| 9 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 10 | Did Purcell start with this because it needed revision and transposition before it could be published ? |
| 11 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 12 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 13 | Perhaps Paul Fisher became aware of this because he paid Thomas Paty , a Bristol carver and contractor , £2,000 to build for him what Ware had designed . |
| 14 | This poem is funny because it treats people as if they were second-hand cars for sale . |
| 15 | This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning . |
| 16 | Now this is where the meal gets a little bit French because I have sauce to deal with . |
| 17 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 18 | Unemployment is harmful because it imposes costs on society . |
| 19 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 20 | To some extent the spending was diversionary because it deflected attention from the cuts that were occurring in the orthodox funding mechanisms for current and capital expenditure . |
| 21 | But the local-tax fudge is dangerous because it concentrates attention on a great dilemma facing Mr Major : how do you lead a party that has just overthrown Margaret Thatcher ? |
| 22 | You do get a bit extra because you get passers by in Summer do n't |
| 23 | I was relieved because I knew Seve would play his best with the sun on his back . |
| 24 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 25 | The concept of ‘ demand ’ is often not appropriate because it implies confrontation , the process is more aptly considered as one of cooperation and persuasion . |
| 26 | But the reasons for this are instructive because they illustrate difficulties that arise in analyzing attitudes to almost any new scientific theory . |
| 27 | ‘ They became alarmed because I had access to security force files of theirs , and all security force personnel through the central computer if I wished . |
| 28 | A third and more serious problem with ( 6.9 ) is that it is not operational because it involves expectations of dividend payments into the infinite future . |
| 29 | O'Brien had approached the Prince at the end of 1984 because he wanted support for a particular project , called Fullemploy . |
| 30 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |