Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on . |
| 2 | There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big . |
| 3 | Minimum vacuum standards are used by most of the tube manufacturers today because they need tubes made as quickly and cheaply as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel sorry for the supporters here because they thought Hirst was going . |
| 5 | It 's hard with family to pull the wool over their eyes emotionally because they have seen you go through all sorts of things when you are growing up . ’ |
| 6 | Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour . |
| 7 | Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas . |
| 8 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 9 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 10 | It was also of course , we were put forward for objective two , this was turned down by these two commissioners simply because they sliced off two percent of the application . |
| 11 | A minority of the children — the exact proportion can not be established — displayed symptoms of the poverty and deprivation that had been quite commonplace in the 1930s , and significantly under-recorded by government reports ; these medical and social symptoms horrified many hosts in the reception areas precisely because they seemed to epitomise wider rural-urban cultural differences . |
| 12 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 13 | Colleagues , I have members in my branches who are unemployed but still pay full contributions not because they have to cos they want to , |
| 14 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 15 | Termites resemble ants superficially because they have convergently adopted the same habits . |
| 16 | They performed well — many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost . |
| 17 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 18 | on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ? |
| 19 | Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge . |
| 20 | Sometimes parents can not answer the questions clearly because they have never thought of observing their child 's behaviour so closely . |
| 21 | The accumulated bric-à-brac of status which graced many a Victorian family parlour , tucked away on a mahogany table behind the aspidistra , was so often important to.the owners precisely because they felt rather less than secure about their own ranking in an increasingly volatile and uncharted class structure . |
| 22 | Darwin realized that many secondary sexual differences were a consequence of the greater intensity of competition between males for access to mates and that many traits were more highly developed in males either because they conferred an advantage in fights or because they rendered their possessor more attractive to females . |
| 23 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 24 | Although homoeopathy is appealing to the lay practitioner , and the number of lay colleges is increasing rapidly in this country at the present time , such developments are viewed askance by some of the medically qualified practitioners mainly because they fear that lay homoeopaths will not possess an adequate grasp of basic medical principles — a fear reflected in the recent BMA report on alternative medicine . |
| 25 | I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do . |
| 26 | Well they do n't they keep there prices down because they did n't spend a lot on advertising . |
| 27 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |
| 28 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes it is necessary to take bits out because they need special coaching , but always put them back in context . |
| 30 | They decided , according to this writer , to bring up their babies alone because they want to be independent and manage their lives without a man . |