Example sentences of "because [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found the pressure hard to handle because everyone expects something special from you every single week . |
| 2 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 3 | More significantly , perhaps , I was annoyed because I expect this financial services organisation to recognise the totality of its relationship to me when making decisions in respect of specific transactions ; in this case to realise that its interest in my house should be adequate collateral for a small and presumably temporary overdraft . |
| 4 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 5 | I used to talk to her and when I found out she was murdered it was a shock , because you expected to see her in here |
| 6 | No , because you expect somebody to take pride in what they do , means the job does n't get as well then . |
| 7 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 8 | They are , in part , inevitable in writing , especially when the writer is thinking hard , and may be missed when the piece is proof-read , because we expect the words to be correct , and read them as though they were . |
| 9 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 10 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 11 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 12 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 13 | It is possible , of course , that the depression or anxiety is felt in response to the physical symptoms — rather than being directly caused by the food itself — or that the person experiences certain mental responses to certain foods simply because they expect to do so . |
| 14 | Of course , whether people are refused credit because of their probable inability to repay , or whether they do not apply for it because they expect refusal on the same grounds , the results are the same . |
| 15 | International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates . |
| 16 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 17 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 18 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 19 | No wonder that we cheer when we see older generations giving it just one more go , not because they expect to hear bells ringing or lights flashing , but because they want to reach out and feel that reassuring touch or see that reaffirming glance which means they have an ally in the world who uniquely cares that they thrive . |
| 20 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 21 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 22 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 23 | COSE continues to resist any designation as a group or collective appellation as the COSE companies reportedly because it expects to expand . |
| 24 | COSE continues to resist any designation as a group or collective appellation as the COSE companies , ostensibly because it expects to expand its membership . |
| 25 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 26 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 27 | Because it expects the pound to strengthen in the months ahead , it has based its North Sea oil calculations on an exchange rate of $1.60 to the pound . |