Example sentences of "because they had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 2 | The 1980 Women and Employment Survey showed that 36 per cent of employed women were not eligible for redundancy payments , primarily because they had insufficient lengths of service ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 , p. 35 ) . |
| 3 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
| 4 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 5 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 6 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 7 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 8 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
| 9 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
| 10 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 11 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 12 | The smaller , specialised firms , on the other hand , offered more personal contact and service ; charged lower fees ; and , because they had fewer clients than the large consultancies , had access to a wider range of candidates because fewer executives were off-limits . |
| 13 | Because they had large paw marks , came the answer . |
| 14 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 15 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 16 | But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground . |
| 17 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 18 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
| 19 | String instruments always raised difficulties , because they had less power than the wind section , and their operators needed more ‘ elbow-room ’ . |