Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , on stage it 's also mixed because I put one Fender cab on top and a Marshall cab on the bottom and then a Marshall cab on top and a Fender cab on the bottom . |
| 2 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
| 5 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 6 | The ‘ expert ’ may have to be interviewed because she has special knowledge of a situation which it is vital for the researcher to have guidance on . |
| 7 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |
| 8 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 9 | Peter Barkworth ends his Sassoon evenings by waving triumphantly a battered copy of the memoirs ; even with a more controversial figure such as Lillian Hellman , Frances de la Tour only accepted because she felt sympathetic and compatible . |
| 10 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 11 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
| 12 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 13 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 14 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 15 | So erm Well first you you welcome them and then say , erm you know , how much time have they got because we offer two tours . |
| 16 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
| 17 | The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws . |
| 18 | Some have had to be demolished because they became dangerous with neglect . |
| 19 | This then becomes further complicated because you get frightened of displaying the symptoms of nervousness and being embarrassed by them so you add another layer of fear and resultant nervousness to the situation . |
| 20 | Mr Torode 's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes . |
| 21 | So it 's sort of , you know , we want to be favoured because we want all the reward , we want to be given a sweet , we want |
| 22 | Although the teams have an important role in constructing the plan , they have tended to be marginalised because they control few resources . |
| 23 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 24 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 25 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 26 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 27 | Whereas initially sites were linked because they produced similar artefacts — stone tools rather than metal ones , for example — it soon became clear that there were different types of stone tools , to take just one group . |
| 28 | Relatively few molluscs — snails and their relatives — are venomous , although some are poisonous when eaten because they accumulate toxic substances through feeding . |
| 29 | Was the herb Good King Henry — seen growing at Acorn Bank and at Hardwick — eaten because it tasted good , or because it was a valuable source of vitamin C ? |
| 30 | Many valid front punches are not scored because they travel such short distances at high speed , and are snapped back before the panel can react . |