Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their advantages include fast stopping and starting , lack of tool wear because nothing touches the workpiece , and — potentially — great accuracy . |
| 2 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |
| 3 | Just because she owns the house I 'm living in , she thinks she can patronize me . |
| 4 | ‘ I chose Dame Edna , because she takes the mickey out of fashion . |
| 5 | THE BOSS of Britain 's biggest domestic cleaning franchise business is set to quit Darlington because she says the town has become ‘ a dump . ’ |
| 6 | She has never asked me to leave my wife and children because she knows the pain of divorce . |
| 7 | You know what I mean and erm she wants this job because she wants the money and , but I do n't really think that you know , she , she er , had the time to two jobs because she has three young children anyhow , I know that 's her problem , erm you know who looks after them or what . |
| 8 | From this perspective , political power in Britain is in the hands of the Prime Minister not just because she controls the agenda but also because we would never question her right to do so . |
| 9 | I am grateful to the hon. Lady because she makes the point that I was coming to . |
| 10 | Ms W from Hartlepool wants Sharron Davies ' thighs , hips and bum because : ‘ They are firm , solid and of perfect shape , ’ while Wendy S. from Middlesbrough chose Jamie Lee Curtis ‘ because she has the shape that she has by dedication and hard work . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's because she has the evidence that it really happened , ’ Stevie explained to Patrick . |
| 12 | Julie , because she accepts the discourse of the other physics students — the idea that physics is ‘ hard ’ — devalues her own philosophical interests . |
| 13 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 14 | Because one gets the impression that it 's an upward journey |
| 15 | We 've protected his identity because he fears the sack for speaking out . |
| 16 | Some people may not want to send Christmas cards or eat meat at least once a week ( two of Townsend 's indicators of conventional British life ) : the implication is that Townsend grossly exaggerates the incidence of poverty because he ignores the fact that people may choose to do without such things . |
| 17 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor [ Novell Inc ] is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 18 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface ( UX No 426 ) , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 19 | No , that is from the computer but he gave it to me because he uses the monitor . |
| 20 | Perhaps because he plays the field . |
| 21 | His son is probably the guy in the Guinness Draught ad , who is no tourist because he speaks the lingo . |
| 22 | The author succeeds in this difficult task , mainly because he takes the trouble to understand a topic thoroughly before writing about it . |
| 23 | If he thinks he is in an adult-adult transaction while the follower has moved to a child-parent response , because he thinks the leader is refusing to accept the point he is making , communication has ceased . |
| 24 | An MP has called for a total ban on tobacco advertising because he says the industry 's voluntary code is a waste of time . |
| 25 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 26 | Because he has the word of assurance from God himself ! |
| 27 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 28 | ‘ My guru has always been Raymond , because he has the skill of making women look beautiful . |
| 29 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 30 | But in my judgment it should not be open to a judge to award damages outside the range because he regards the range as being too low . |