Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 2 | You do n't instigate plots , because you know that plots get found out . |
| 3 | So she held out her hand , because she knew that adults did that . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 5 | We wish to expand our membership because we believe that birds are everyone 's concern . |
| 6 | First , because we wish to find out about children as such ; second , because we believe that events early in life play an important part in shaping adult personality . |
| 7 | In addition , they supported the principle that receipt of the National Insurance pension should be conditional on retirement , because they feared that employers would treat pensions as a subsidy for wages if they were paid automatically at the age of 65 ( ibid . ) . |
| 8 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 9 | Contact a Family have found that there is a move amongst Health Authorities to increase the age at which they provide free nappies for children with special needs because they argue that children without special needs use nappies at night until they are 4 or 5 . |
| 10 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 11 | It 's to shame the rest of the Dharjees , because they say that Dharjees flout Islamic law ! ’ |
| 12 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 13 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 14 | This is important because it recognises that retailers may not have the knowledge or the resources to check whether the goods he sells meet the general safety requirement , especially in the case of second-hand goods . |
| 15 | On the strength of this advertisement , the Government persuaded a High Court judge to grant an " interim injunction " against the broadcast , because it feared that ex-employees of the security services might have breached confidence in the course of their interviews . |
| 16 | It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse . |
| 17 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 18 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 19 | It also bears upon our understanding of tumour progression , because it implies that cells in which one p53 allele has been somatically mutated may have a survival advantage in the presence of genotoxic agents ( for example ultraviolet exposure of skin ) over those that have two intact copies of the gene . |
| 20 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 21 | Was it overlooked because it demonstrates that insights into genetic disorders can be gained without use of human embryos ? |