Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree , sometimes I can tell you I have witnessed a hunt and on a cold , frosty morning when er about forty or fifty horses are thundering across the ploughed field , it 's enough to p the power of that sight is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up that 's not what we are against the hunter that came to me and says Eh up lad , I wo n't go drag hunting because I 'm sixty years old , I 've done it all my life and I like the ride , I like to be there I never see a fox killed that 's fact , it 's in the video . |
| 2 | Never settle for painting a still life with nets and anchor just because you are afraid seascapes are too complex . |
| 3 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 4 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's right , ’ said Mildred , ‘ and I heard tell that she changed one girl into a frog because she was two seconds late for a lesson . |
| 6 | In the past , probably because she was four years older , Laura had always seemed the more dominant figure . |
| 7 | Judge Clark said that he was not reducing her sentence because she was a woman but because she was ten years younger than the other two and had two children depending on her . |
| 8 | Milk quotas do not work , and in some ways a bit of market forces might have helped the United Kingdom because we are efficient producers . |
| 9 | It appears that , because we are great friends with the Indian Government and the Indian community , and because they tell us that there is no political persecution in the Punjab , we must accept that . |
| 10 | The problem is that no amount of self-knowledge can entirely express our full humanity , precisely because we are incomplete beings . |
| 11 | We do not have to fear predators in the same way as do other animals , but because we are social beings and rely upon others for survival , learning and fulfilment in life , company is essential . |
| 12 | Jesus is not suggesting there are some who are righteous and some who are sinners , because we 're all sinners , all have sinned but he 's suggesting that those who do n't realize and acknowledge they 're sinners , he says , I have n't come to call you . |
| 13 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 14 | ‘ Because we 're handsome beasts , ’ said Mallachy . |
| 15 | Feelings in early childhood , where we were , indeed , helpless , where the world was , in fact , meaningless , where we were er subject as it were to erm , the arbitrary erm to , to , to arbitrary fate , and felt it because we were young children , but in which there really was a power that looked after us . |
| 16 | Ah , Mary , Mary Shelley , how dear you were and are , beyond all women — and yet what was possible then was only possible because we were mere phantoms in the world , or so we saw it , and scarcely less than phantoms to each other . |
| 17 | I have n't had to in my this current house because they 're sealed units and I I bought the house new so . |
| 18 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |
| 19 | that even in , in , in the revelation , the very beginning chapters to of had one to about chapter seven were very easy to understand , once you understand what they 're saying , because they 're all letters to each congregation at that time were n't they ? |
| 20 | He does n't have to break any ice because they 're all pals . |
| 21 | Just because they 're outside callers , it does n't mean to say they do n't know what hours . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't give a damn for what is fashionable , ’ he said , ‘ and I do n't want to write about characters just because they 're fashionable types . |
| 23 | No he can be an American dream and he can also represent Russia because they 're different things that you 're talking about . |
| 24 | Because they 're different units . |
| 25 | There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . ) |
| 26 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
| 27 | They 're appointed because they 're intelligent beings and I think they should be treated as such and consulted . |
| 28 | In the 1945 general election , a mass meeting of 1,200 pensioners endorsed Barbara Castle and John Edwards , ‘ not because they are Labour candidates , but because they will support YOU ’ . |
| 29 | The attitudes of and between parents begin to impress themselves on it simply because they are parental attitudes , not because they are understood . |
| 30 | The women are lonely because they are professional women and they have no sustenance . |