Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 2 | The cities of the west only exist because the railway came through there . |
| 3 | Aerotow problems usually arise because the pilot ignores the possibility of something going wrong and is caught by surprise . |
| 4 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 5 | In a new pool they often die because the water has not matured and there is insufficient debris on the pool floor in which they can make their home . |
| 6 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 7 | Up-gradings often fail because the job description does not match actual work . |
| 8 | Recessions often start because the demand for credit falls . |
| 9 | The Countryside Commission , the government 's advisory body , has similar feelings and in its report , Planning for a Greener Countryside , comments that ‘ problems often arise because the development is inappropriate for the proposed site … imposed on the countryside rather than being a part of it ’ . |
| 10 | Unfortunately this theory does not stand up too well either– because the mountain zebra comes from the cooler south and yet has vivid stripes . |
| 11 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |