Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 3 | She is not keen to eliminate all these sources of sugar because she derives such pleasure from them . |
| 4 | Because she has mild heart disease , she may serve her whole sentence in the medical facility . |
| 5 | Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job . |
| 6 | The ‘ expert ’ may have to be interviewed because she has special knowledge of a situation which it is vital for the researcher to have guidance on . |
| 7 | She has even formed her own film and video group because she finds most training films ‘ a yawn a minute ’ . |
| 8 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |
| 9 | This is because he rejects social class differences and class-based theories such as anomie as explanations of crime — partly because of their ‘ strain ’ assumption , and partly because his data ( which use sources other than ‘ official ’ ones ) fail to support the existence of a class differential . |
| 10 | Sir Leicester may think it appropriate to keep Mr Rouncewell waiting , ‘ opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flight of ironmasters ’ , but it is his housekeeper 's son who now wields the moral authority , for he has come to remove his future daughter-in-law , the lady 's maid Rosa , from Lady Dedlock 's charge because he thinks that position is unsuitable . |
| 11 | But he has got himself into difficulties because he thinks that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world . |
| 12 | GORDON lets us go into Longreen Park because he likes Brown Owl . |
| 13 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 14 | Yes , we all know that he prefers consensus rather than confrontation and I suppose maybe because he has that kind of style he might be just what the doctor ordered for the nineties . |
| 15 | As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) . |
| 16 | Where a statement does cause the relevant belief or attitude in a hearer , it is because he has some reason to think the speaker 's beliefs on that topic are likely to be true , or his attitudes ones he is likely to find , on enquiry , reason to share , rather than because the mere words have any great hold over him . |
| 17 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 18 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 21 | It also gives a more useful reduction because it guarantees lexical output . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Psychological empowerment is broader than a pure intrapsychic variable because it measures individual change within one 's social setting , such as one 's belief in one 's ability to act for community change , and one 's belief in the value of group action ( Chavis and Wandersman , 1990 ; Zimmerman , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The film itself should not be written off just because it uses unsophisticated material . |
| 28 | Secondly , disease is occasionally seen in an individual adult penned in a heavily contaminated calf paddock because it requires daily attention for some other reason . |
| 29 | The fact of his being in the water clouds things a bit , because it alters normal body cooling . |
| 30 | There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction . |