Example sentences of "because [pers pn] are the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ The truth is that we get hammered because we are the sport trying to clean up our act and , therefore , our work becomes high profile . |
| 3 | They are published primarily for the sake of their inherent scholarly and cultural value ; for the sake of the great prestige attaching to them , of which more is said below ( 2.9 ) ; and because they are the foundation on which all the other English language reference books published by OUP are based , reference books which are all highly successful in commercial terms . |
| 4 | I classify seven words as indicating probable problems with reading , because they are the kind of errors younger children would be expected to make : fritend , herd , crecher , dangrus , tow ( two ) , mac , mec ( make ) . |
| 5 | So I look to her neighbours because they are the kind of people GMTV is aimed at . ’ |
| 6 | Balmoral in Scotland and Sandringham in Norfolk will not be included because they are the Queen 's personal property . |
| 7 | Such family connections were very different from those in one-industry occupational communities and are important precisely because they are the basis of interaction in civil society and relate to political action . |
| 8 | You should never assume that because they are the world 's greatest experts on retail warehousing that the job can be left entirely to them . |
| 9 | ‘ Our spirit is magnificent , and we are certainly not in awe of Australia just because they are the world champions . |
| 10 | According to this view , the state is a doubly important object of study , first because its institutions are a major and influential part of the political instance of capitalist society , and second because they are the key to the working of society as a whole . |