Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authority figures who abuse their power are , of course , doing so because they have received that sort of abuse themselves ( and in receiving have also learned how to give abuse ) and perhaps because they perceive others as a threat : ‘ I will dominate you before you have any chance of dominating me . ’ |
| 2 | Some may have lied deliberately , perhaps out of boredom , perhaps out of mischief , perhaps because they consider pollsters an impertinent nuisance . |
| 3 | If access to the toilet is difficult , perhaps because it has steps , or the room is too small for a wheelchair and the carer to manoeuvre in , he may have to be provided with a commode . |
| 4 | Perhaps because he needed art so much himself , Basil never for one moment doubted the overwhelming importance of art education in the development of ordinary but real people . |
| 5 | Perhaps because he considered Nkrumah an opportunist he instructed Krishna Menon at the UN in New York to hold aloof and ‘ if pressed … vote against direct military assistance ’ . |
| 6 | If , nevertheless , your job does come under threat , perhaps because you suffer disablement which makes fulfilling your original job description very difficult , it may be worth urging your employer to consider whether your duties can be revised so that you can cope and continue to make a worthwhile contribution to the success of the business . |
| 7 | During the discussion , one of the French counsellors proposed that Edward was bound to swear fealty , as well as homage to Philip V. Edward 's own words in reply to what he clearly considered an outrageous suggestion survive : they were spoken without the advice of his council , apparently because they had difficulty in hearing the king 's whispered words and he lost patience . |
| 8 | He was acquitted , apparently because he had support within the royal household , and because the bishops united to reject the evidence of an inferior against one of themselves . |
| 9 | We receive Family Allowance merely because we have children . |
| 10 | But is hardly less distressing to Israeli ‘ moderates ’ , not merely because they find oppression of another people morally wrong , but because of its dangerously divisive effect on Israeli society itself . |
| 11 | Marguerite was already there and she too seemed to have pulled herself together because she took charge of the conversation at once . |
| 12 | We are ill-equipped to comprehend the very small and the very large ; things whose duration is measured in picoseconds or gigayears ; particles that do n't have position ; forces and fields that we can not see or touch , which we know of only because they affect things that we can see or touch . |
| 13 | Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights . |
| 14 | The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 16 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 17 | The group as a whole is in the black only because it has income from an American retailing chain Silo and from financial services and property deals in Britain . |
| 18 | The cinema debate screened on Channel 4 between four film-makers from countries not usually represented on the screen ( India , the Philippines , Lebanon , and Brazil ) , which took place under the auspices of Women Call the Shots , was perhaps especially effective in this way , not only because it called attention to the existence of cinematic traditions outside of the ones we usually view , discuss , and study , but also because the four women film-makers involved in the debate took up such diverse positions . |
| 19 | In fact swimming is undoubtedly the b–st possible form of exercise — not only because it develops stamina , suppleness and strength but because the buoyancy of the water removes the danger of straining an otherwise unfit body . |
| 20 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 21 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 22 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 23 | Whatever the theory , Paul VI 's pontificate acted out dramatically the tensions between primacy and collegiality — but this came about only because he took collegiality seriously . |
| 24 | He made it sound like a fortune , this extra $1.25 , it was only because he liked Jed so much , he did n't know what had come over him , maybe he had a fever , an extra $1.25 , it was madness . |
| 25 | Because I gave my wife some money obviously because I pay tax , she does n't she 's at home with the children , she did n't seem to object funnily enough , you know I said I 'll move this money over to you . |
| 26 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 27 | Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again . |
| 28 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 29 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 30 | Oliver 's lead , darling I do n't think so because you choked Oliver one day before and daddy said no . |