Example sentences of "because [pers pn] have a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
| 3 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 4 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 5 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 6 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 7 | It was difficult to calculate Hewlett-Packard Co 's margins , he said , because it has a wider-ranging business . |
| 8 | The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect . |
| 9 | Some firms like BP try to use as much North Sea crude as possible , because it has a lower sulphur content than Arabian Gulf oil . |