Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 2 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 3 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 4 | ‘ If you look like a gringo ( a foreigner , usually blond ) then it 'll be a lot more expensive , because you have more money , ’ she explains simply . |
| 5 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 6 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 7 | Because we use more products than most of the world , many people are involved in trade and transport . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , we can not simply solve these equations arid see if the resulting solution is non-negative , as in the examples of Chapter 5 , because we have more variables than equations — a consequence of ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) being a degenerate solution of LP* ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) ( by construction ) . |
| 9 | In Western society we have marginalized elderly people to a considerable extent , maybe because we place more emphasis on economic than on personal worth . |
| 10 | All voiceless sounds are fortis because they require more air and more energy in order to create the same turbulence in the air and therefore the same amount of volume as voiced sounds . |
| 11 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 12 | A US federal court has ordered a secondary ban on tuna imports from countries that buy the fish from Mexico and Venezuela , which have been under a US embargo since 1990 because they kill more dolphins than allowed by US law [ see ED no. 51 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of our fans said they were happy we did n't get a second goal because they feared more trouble , ’ said Bangor secretary Freddie Anderson . |
| 14 | Some people like prison because they make more friends in there . |
| 15 | Oh they do yes , well because nowadays , because they got more men on each job now than they really want . |
| 16 | In general , long shots run for longer than close-ups because they contain more information for the eye to take in , and an average length might be ten to fifteen seconds . |
| 17 | It encourages the conditions for crime in communities that already feel more impact from crime because they contain more victims of crime , as well as more offenders . |
| 18 | Although criticising the Africans , whom many Chinese do not like because they have more money because of higher scholarships and a greater degree of freedom , there is a legitimate case to be made for the view that the students had found another excuse to bring attention to their own problems and views about conditions in China . |
| 19 | Bu but , but the rich because they have more resources are more highly productive . |
| 20 | Savacentre stocks these products because they have more space . |
| 21 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 22 | I have a few questions of my own erm in , in doing it and erm was er when you say that , that males had males parental investment erm I was wondering how they , how can a male when the male decides to desert how can they be certain if the female is going to take care of the offspring , because I was wondering if erm if probability like the based by their genes it does n't matter if one female does n't take care of the offspring because they produce more offspring |
| 23 | They are also likely to have greater need for heating than other groups , because they spend more time at home . |
| 24 | It has to do with the pervasive corruption in public life , now at last being revealed in Milan , which favours large , one-off projects over mere maintenance because they allow more opportunities for douceurs . |
| 25 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 26 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |
| 27 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 28 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 29 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 30 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |