Example sentences of "because [pron] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | ‘ Just because I 'm the only woman in the world who shares your crazy sense of humour … ’ |
| 4 | A while ago I considered changing my snookering nickname ( which I am at complete liberty to do , because I 'm the only one who uses it ) , to take account of the New Weather : global warming , and so on . |
| 5 | And nothing 's going to happen to Lucille Walker — ’ he looked surprised at the name , ’ — because I 'm the only one who knows where she is . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Gran demanded a share of the Corosini money for me , ’ she said , piecing it all together , bit by bit , ‘ because I 'm the only descendant . ’ |
| 7 | I even had to leave my sick bed because I 'm the only goalkeeper . |
| 8 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 9 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 10 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 11 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 12 | ‘ Or because I was the first to show any interest ? |
| 13 | ‘ They called me Papa because I was the eldest , three years older than Gifford , six years older than Eddie . ’ |
| 14 | I was lucky , too , because I was the fourth child of four . |
| 15 | But , because his was the only voice to shout ‘ not content ’ , the amendment was put again . |
| 16 | They chose the state railways because theirs was the lowest bid . |
| 17 | ‘ Because you are the greatest voice Gesner has ever sung with . |
| 18 | ‘ Because you 're the only one who can do it , Howard . |
| 19 | ‘ Because you 're the bloody singer , you dickhead , ’ says Fred . |
| 20 | It 's just because you 're the poor fish my daughter married ; but then the unfortunate girl could n't get a better catch in her particular sea . ’ |
| 21 | Oh aye , it would be more than that because you 're the twenty second of February |
| 22 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 23 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 24 | Penny Mallory is assured of being the top woman driver … because she 's the only British lady behind the wheel this year … and what 's more her co-driver and mechanics are all women too |
| 25 | ‘ I will be driving and my sister will be navigating , because she is the better map reader . |
| 26 | It stuck in his mind because she was the one person who , of course , had n't mentioned the snow , hadn't. even noticed it because of being stuck in ‘ that gloomy hole ’ as she put it herself , day in , day out , and that evil husband of hers never there , net ; er ! |
| 27 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 28 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 29 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 30 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |