Example sentences of "because [pers pn] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So that was our first se good school , as you may say then and then within about four years they built Tanys Dell and erm we just you know , we formed a quite a a a very good community here because we were all people from different areas we all had the same problems trying to re-adjust in a new place and I think then , we had more relationship with , with our neighbours than people are having today . |
| 4 | Everybody sitting around me in the dark knew something that I did n't know , because they were real Catholics and I was only pretending . |
| 5 | Often , that happened not because they were poor managers but because they were unable to collect debts owed by other businesses that went broke . |
| 6 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 7 | It never occurred to me that somewhere wimmin might love other wimmin precisely because they were other wimmin and that this love could include a sexual dimension . |
| 8 | M. Because they were two women on their own . |
| 9 | They have been cleared by the European Commission because they were transitional contracts . |
| 10 | Indeed , as Tony Gamble , the company 's Publisher and Managing Director , indicated to this year 's Electronic Publishing Conference the main reason they had n't looked at desktop publishing was because they were professional publishers and felt that the technology was unlikely to be suitable for them . |
| 11 | And er because they were professional men you see . |
| 12 | It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue . |
| 13 | Perhaps I loved those who came after because they were faint imitations of her . ) |
| 14 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 15 | The response of the couple was that this was encouraging news because they were successful circus clowns and hoping to have like children to keep the business in the family . |
| 16 | It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts . |
| 17 | According to Angela John 's history of the struggle , By The Sweat of Their Brow ( Croom Helm , 1980 ) opposition to the women 's work focused on control over their sexuality and motherhood and on the employers ' attitudes — some supported the women because they were cheap labour . |
| 18 | In two cases , because they were part-time farms and there was no one to keep an eye on the cows and calves , these had to be sold and replaced with store stock . |
| 19 | Others could be ruled out because they were illegal strings by reference to binary di-grams . |
| 20 | The colonies as a group quickly emerged as a key element in British strategy because they were net dollar earners ( basically because of Malayan rubber and West African products such as cocoa ) and could be made so on a bigger scale by a number of policy devices . |
| 21 | But they had kept her too long and she had n't wanted to appear rude because they were nice people , and now she was very , very late . |
| 22 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 23 | Er firework night now I we would get bangers , put them , get a dustbin lid and , and put the banger under the dustbin lid and the dustbin lid used to go up because they were big bangers then . |
| 24 | Because they were perishable goods , it was no use keeping them you see . |
| 25 | These 34 patients were referred ( 68% by consultants from other hospitals ) for non-operative treatment because they were high risk for surgery . |
| 26 | Er er bank clerks , this was the top half er shop keepers , erm and and and sort of the further you went to they , the better the people came because they were top half I mean I remember Tom Williams the professional golfer , he lived up there . |
| 27 | I think about these things because they were domestic economies that we practised in the 1950s . |
| 28 | So er I I stayed on in tailoring , and probably got on better , because they were lovely people . |