Example sentences of "because they [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth .
2 Though many genetic fluctuations do occur , most die out because they fail to confer any survival advantages on gut-dwelling microbes .
3 Because they want to sell that , but they want it to be sort of like half private
4 The Idiot Boy and Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman are true Lyrical Ballads , and are poems which remain alive because they continue to provoke such intense disagreement .
5 The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent .
6 Herdwicks start lambing a year after other breeds because they need to grow enough to stand the harsh climate .
7 They go because they need to cover some sort of guilt , I 'm convinced of that now , the more people that I know I mean fib of all people fib is now turned to religion .
8 We leave that to the specialists , and indeed I think that the reason why we 're particularly concerned with disasters which happen in the poorer parts of the world , the developing countries , is because they seem to have less of a voice to be able to complain about what is done to them .
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