Example sentences of "because he [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've protected his identity because he fears the sack for speaking out . |
| 2 | Some people may not want to send Christmas cards or eat meat at least once a week ( two of Townsend 's indicators of conventional British life ) : the implication is that Townsend grossly exaggerates the incidence of poverty because he ignores the fact that people may choose to do without such things . |
| 3 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor [ Novell Inc ] is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 4 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface ( UX No 426 ) , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 5 | No , that is from the computer but he gave it to me because he uses the monitor . |
| 6 | Perhaps because he plays the field . |
| 7 | His son is probably the guy in the Guinness Draught ad , who is no tourist because he speaks the lingo . |
| 8 | The author succeeds in this difficult task , mainly because he takes the trouble to understand a topic thoroughly before writing about it . |
| 9 | If he thinks he is in an adult-adult transaction while the follower has moved to a child-parent response , because he thinks the leader is refusing to accept the point he is making , communication has ceased . |
| 10 | An MP has called for a total ban on tobacco advertising because he says the industry 's voluntary code is a waste of time . |
| 11 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 12 | Because he has the word of assurance from God himself ! |
| 13 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 14 | ‘ My guru has always been Raymond , because he has the skill of making women look beautiful . |
| 15 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 16 | But in my judgment it should not be open to a judge to award damages outside the range because he regards the range as being too low . |
| 17 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 18 | POLICEMAN Brian Yinger has been suspended and ordered to take psychiatric tests because he writes the figure seven with a line through the downstroke . |
| 19 | I I got , we we 've established a and I 'm delighted that the minister is part of that , because he controls the purse , and the purse strings . |
| 20 | ‘ Because he wants the money . ’ |
| 21 | Or has the right hon. Gentleman changed his mind again because he wants the key to No. 10 ? |
| 22 | Because he wants the entropy to increase with time , the obvious conclusion would be that the wrong definition of entropy has been chosen and that it should be changed , but he decides instead to change the law of time evolution . |
| 23 | He has that selfishness — it 's not even an honest selfishness , because he puts the blame on life and then enjoys being selfish with a free conscience . |
| 24 | Now McClair is a player Ferguson cherishes because he puts the team cause above personal glory . |
| 25 | CONSERVATIVE candidate Paul Rayner has denied an allegation by Mehdi Husaini , chairman of the Cleveland Racial Equality Council , that he was bigoted because he supports the abolition of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 26 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 27 | The criminal law includes only one type of non-consensual sexual act as rape , namely the insertion of penis in vagina by force or threatened force ; it excludes sexual intercourse between husband and wife , no matter how much the latter is beaten by the former to exercise his ‘ conjugal right ’ ; it excludes most sexual acts achieved by fraud , deceit , or misrepresentation — thus a man may pose as a psychiatrist and prescribe sexual intercourse as therapy to a ‘ gullible female ’ , because he knows the law will regard this as acceptable seduction rather than rape ; it excludes men who use economic , organizational , or social power rather than actual or threatened force to overcome an unwilling but subordinate , and therefore vulnerable female ; it excludes the forced insertion of any other instrument , no matter how sharp or dangerous . |
| 28 | We go to a solicitor for advice because he knows the law ; to a doctor because she can interpret symptoms . |
| 29 | Another member of staff was n't so sure : ‘ He wo n't wash because he believes the water is poisoned and poison gets through his skin . |
| 30 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |