Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 2 | If she does well , it 'll be because she 's worked for it . |
| 3 | We do n't do things out of choice or purpose but because we are rewarded for what we do . |
| 4 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 5 | Of course we were very disappointed because we were geared for it , and we were prepared to play even to two or three people in the audience . |
| 6 | I think these wars are short because they 're fought for limited objectives . |
| 7 | Citation and co-citation approaches often introduce bias into measures , and central influences are often not cited , because they are taken for granted ; they become an assumed part of the research paradigm , just as the all-pervading cosmic background black-body radiation is a palimpsest of the universe 's original Big Bang . |
| 8 | This is not because they are taken for granted — quite the reverse , for each one of them is valued more with each year that passes . |
| 9 | Village fetes , car boot sales and occasional markets are exempt because they are used for less than five days in any five consecutive weeks . |
| 10 | Note that the finite verbs in the Portuguese text establish additional cohesive links with Morita because they are marked for person . |
| 11 | I 'd never part with them because they were made for me . |
| 12 | Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems . |
| 13 | This turned out to be impracticable , partly because they were needed for training and also had to be moved between aerodromes because of changes in the strategic and tactical situation , but also , more importantly , just how do you build an aeroplane for one flight only ? |
| 14 | Preston was looking stiff because he was braced for another horror story . |
| 15 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
| 16 | The IAAF has threatened to counter-sue Reynolds after dismissing as ‘ worthless ’ an American court judgment awarding him £18 million damages because he was banned for alleged drug-taking . |
| 17 | As I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware , the reason for that is that the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of the year because it is used for heating . |
| 18 | The double-flowered form is the one generally cultivated because it is preferred for medical use , and is grown from division of runners , taken and planted in early spring ; seedlings produce a large number of single-flowered forms . |
| 19 | A great deal of documentary primary material is now quickly published because it is needed for reference . |
| 20 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |
| 21 | During an offline run a particular unit may become unavailable , either because it is required for some other purpose , or due to physical breakdown . |
| 22 | Anything that is done for shock value has no future because it 's done for the moment . |
| 23 | The company claims this is because it 's designed for first-time users , but it 's a nuisance if you want to import a mailing list from another package . |
| 24 | Their distinctive features have been chronicled ( with evident pride ) by Schaffer ( 1970 ) and Evans ( 1972 ) ; the first because , as a civil servant , he had been much associated with the programme , the second because it was written for the Town and Country Planning Association , long the champions of planned dispersal . |
| 25 | It will be a whole lot clearer to you then , but it 's there basically because it was asked for , it 's inadequate because that was all they could do on the day , having been instructed to provide it . |
| 26 | Because it was constructed for a specific purpose , this text is fairly unusual in that there are few lexical clues to what the text might be ‘ about ’ . |
| 27 | This kind of information is difficult to acquire after things have gone out of general use and was often not recorded in the past because it was taken for granted . |
| 28 | This road , known as the Coal Road because it was used for the transport of coal from long-abandoned pits , discloses an aerial view of the hidden valley of Grisedale across the gulf of Garsdale . |