Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Because I feel any tenderness towards my prison where all luxuries are insipid ? |
2 | Because I feel any attachment to this city or this world where I have laboured ? |
3 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
4 | Those of us who campaigned against the Gulf War did so not because we had any liking for Saddam Hussein . |
5 | But even these comparisons understate the excessive amount of corporate-induced death and suffering because they omit any reference to consumers physically harmed by the sale of improperly researched substances , dangerous or poisonous products , and so on , or citizens physically harmed through industrial air pollution . |
6 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
7 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
8 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
9 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
10 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
11 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |