Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined in the debate because I felt that this was one issue to which I could meaningfully contribute . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 3 | Not that she minded Jack playing around because she knew that one day he would be hers . |
| 4 | He looked so like a frog , being literally green with fright , with his eyes nearly popping out of his head , that Breeze wanted to laugh ; but she did n't , because she knew that this curious , gaping crowd of people would think she was hysterical . |
| 5 | In terms of female users , this can be particularly tragic as in the following case , where the woman did not seek treatment because she assumed that this would eventually lead to the placing of a care order on her children : |
| 6 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 7 | So , for various different reasons , most of the Unionist leaders approved of Lloyd George 's intentions ; the party managers agreed because they feared that continuing disorganization on the Coalition Liberal side might eventually wreck the government . |
| 8 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 9 | This trend was welcomed by articulate working class women 's groups such as the Women 's Cooperative Guild , because of poor working class housing conditions and because they believed that working class wives needed a respite from the cares of managing a household . |
| 10 | The Conservatives seemed rather more favourable to the prospect of scrutiny by backbench committees , perhaps because they felt that such a challenge would help to restrain public expenditure . |
| 11 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 12 | This was because they found that many of their animals and plants were very similar to European forms , but that they did differ in what seemed to be significant respects , such as size or colour . |
| 13 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 14 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 15 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 16 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 17 | I think also that he liked Kelham — provided it were a short visit , for he was by nature and inclination a townsman — because he felt that such establishments were of great value in carrying on , in addition to theological instruction , the classical tradition . |
| 18 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 19 | No part of his mind said , ‘ It 's silly to feel like this about leaving the house , ’ because he knew that this feeling was n't in any way connected with his leaving the house . |
| 20 | It is a stately cliff of a semi in Holland Park now lashed together against a neighbouring stately semi because he found that this was the best way to double his garden space . |
| 21 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 22 | The Report of the Franks Committee in 1957 was recognized by Robson as ‘ an important landmark in our constitutional history ’ , largely because it accepted that administrative tribunals are ‘ a valuable and permanent part of the machinery of justice ’ and went much further ‘ than the grudging admission of the advantages possessed by tribunals accorded by the Donoughmore Report ’ . |
| 23 | His tax , known as a property tax , worked better because it realised that efficient assessment and collection were more important than raised levels . |
| 24 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |
| 25 | It was a compliment with a sting though , because it implied that this was a kind of good looks that would not last . |
| 26 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |