Example sentences of "because [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 2 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 3 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 4 | As we will see , hesitations are an important subject of study because of what they can reveal about the mechanisms being employed when people produce spoken language . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps Mistress Hopkins was murdered simply because of what she might know . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That poor old woman was murdered , ’ Benjamin declared , ‘ not because she had said or done anything wrong but simply because of what she might know . |
| 7 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 8 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 9 | ‘ Because of what you might have remembered since . ’ |
| 10 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 11 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |
| 12 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |