Example sentences of "be [verb] the [noun] because " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Generally you can tell pretty quickly if the client has a problem with the way you are handling the case because things start to go wrong . |
| 2 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 3 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 4 | It is not difficult for corporate officials to cover themselves in ‘ purity ’ even when they are breaking the law because the ‘ structural immorality ’ of their corporate environment provides a library of verbal technique for neutralizing the moral bind of laws against corporate behaviour . |
| 5 | Maybe we are getting the business because of the recession : rather than doing new things , people want to sort out what is wrong with the old ones . ’ |
| 6 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 7 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 8 | The impression is that the Tories are winning the debate because you 're having to amend some of your earlier statements . |
| 9 | I am making the extension because of the pressure from general practitioners who have asked me to extend the list size . |
| 10 | ‘ We were to view the corpse because we suspected it was the body of an imposter . |
| 11 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
| 12 | They were watching the Masters because , as they frankly admitted , they wanted to meet some surfer boys . |
| 13 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 14 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 15 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 16 | A delegation of councillors is lobbying the Government because they say the noise is unbearable . |
| 17 | Of course it would be possible for Trible to maintain that she is re-reading the text because it is an important western text and she wants to understand more accurately what its authors meant . |
| 18 | ‘ The intelligentsia ’ , in Lenin 's much-quoted words , ‘ is called the intelligentsia because it most consciously , most decisively and most precisely expresses the development of the class interests and political groupings in society as a whole . ’ |
| 19 | be doing the cooking because he 's the only sober one . |
| 20 | The Jeyes factory in Cheltenham is making the redundancies because it 's transferring production to another plant in Norfolk . |
| 21 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that he is avoiding the reality because it is so embarrassing . |
| 22 | Dawn 's missing the football because of the final of the Grand Prix . |
| 23 | ‘ Burton had been hitting the bottle because he was missing Liz . |
| 24 | His letters from Kentucky were painfully clear — he thought he was in love with Wendell Harvey 's daughter , Cora-Beth , and Mr Harvey was encouraging the match because he very much wanted Harry to live permanently in America . |
| 25 | The Financial Times of March 26 quoted the US ambassador to GATT , Rufus Yerxa , as saying that the USA was seeking the exemptions because the proposals of other nations to open their markets were not adequate to ensure a balanced accord . |
| 26 | It was publishing the material because it existed , McGrath explained , and , while neither the paper nor staff were anti-semitic , ‘ Considering Ezra Pound 's achievements as a writer , making work of his generally available would seem to need no excuse … |
| 27 | But when we took it over the , one of the first things we did was to redesign the kitchen because the soup was made in these great boiler and it was probably heated up every day of the week and can imagine what it would be like being in prison . |
| 28 | The main thing for us was stopping the office because that 's where sales go on . |
| 29 | He was playing the bastard because that way the inner door opened . |
| 30 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |