Example sentences of "because they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 2 | The mitotic divisions recovered from the pronuclear stages are unique because they reveal gametic chromosome complements ; thus , in a fertilized egg , male and female contributions can be distinguished , and in unfertilized eggs , the female chromosomes can be revealed by parthenogenetic activation with a variety of treatments ( ref.1 , and see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 3 | Purkinje and hippocampal neurons are noted for their plasticity because they show long-term changes in neural transmission following certain stimulus regimes . |
| 4 | Because they show different forms of art , between them they draw on a wide range of interests . |
| 5 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |
| 6 | They have emerged in , and been sustained by , society , and are on offer in institutions because they reflect certain kinds of social interest . |
| 7 | These writers criticized the industry for being a second-rate imitation of Hollywood , but that was because they despised American cinema and the ‘ box-office bogey ’ , not because they appreciated the economic gap between the two industries . |
| 8 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 9 | Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan . |
| 10 | Reviewing the literature of the 1960s , we find a number of schools which appear to challenge the Morgenthau paradigm because they use different concepts . |
| 11 | That is partly , no doubt , because they use different sets of data and time-periods . |
| 12 | While all firms have income and retained earnings statements similar to these tables , it is possible for two identical firms with identical cash flows to end up with different reported earnings because they use different accounting conventions . |
| 13 | It could well be argued that both " Balak " and " Aram " in line A are more specific or precise than their counterparts in line B , " the king of Moab " and " the Eastern Hills " , because they use proper names for identification . |
| 14 | In addition , some patients are admitted straight from the Out patient Clinic because they require immediate treatment . |
| 15 | It seems that most who enter care do so because there appears to be little alternative because they require high levels of care . |
| 16 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 17 | They are certainly very useful for an engineer because they relate practical requirements ( e.g. how large the voltage should be at the secondary ) to design parameters ( what the turns ratio should be ) . |
| 18 | Superiors are reluctant to delegate authority because they retain absolute responsibility for the performance of their subordinates . |
| 19 | Staff would begin to cluster in groups , perhaps because they needed common equipment and facilities , perhaps because they discovered common ground in what they taught . |
| 20 | Erm , indeed some eighty ninety year olds do n't need any supervision , on the other hand some people in their early sixties may need to be looked after , and , you know , I do n't fancy the idea of anybody being able to claim allowances because they 've fit granny , erm , on the other hand anybody who needs to ought to be able to , and I think this wording secures that . |
| 21 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 22 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 23 | These folks are in here because they exploit other people . ’ |
| 24 | We can always tell who is speaking because they speak different languages . |
| 25 | They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories , and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways . |
| 26 | Because they get strange looks , etc. , etc . |
| 27 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |
| 28 | For example , in an industry with a few large and many small firms , the large firms may support a trade association to lobby for industry-wide benefits because they get large benefits from it , even though the small firms also benefit from its success without joining . |
| 29 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 30 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |