Example sentences of "because they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 2 | Purkinje and hippocampal neurons are noted for their plasticity because they show long-term changes in neural transmission following certain stimulus regimes . |
| 3 | Because they show different forms of art , between them they draw on a wide range of interests . |
| 4 | They have emerged in , and been sustained by , society , and are on offer in institutions because they reflect certain kinds of social interest . |
| 5 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 6 | Reviewing the literature of the 1960s , we find a number of schools which appear to challenge the Morgenthau paradigm because they use different concepts . |
| 7 | That is partly , no doubt , because they use different sets of data and time-periods . |
| 8 | It could well be argued that both " Balak " and " Aram " in line A are more specific or precise than their counterparts in line B , " the king of Moab " and " the Eastern Hills " , because they use proper names for identification . |
| 9 | It seems that most who enter care do so because there appears to be little alternative because they require high levels of care . |
| 10 | Twin rear wheels tend to obstruct the load area because they require larger wheelarches . |
| 11 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 12 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 13 | A US federal court has ordered a secondary ban on tuna imports from countries that buy the fish from Mexico and Venezuela , which have been under a US embargo since 1990 because they kill more dolphins than allowed by US law [ see ED no. 51 ] . |
| 14 | They are certainly very useful for an engineer because they relate practical requirements ( e.g. how large the voltage should be at the secondary ) to design parameters ( what the turns ratio should be ) . |
| 15 | The Americans are cool , too , because they know most Arabs consider the plan an excuse for Israeli procrastination . |
| 16 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 17 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 18 | We can always tell who is speaking because they speak different languages . |
| 19 | They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories , and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways . |
| 20 | Because they get strange looks , etc. , etc . |
| 21 | For example , in an industry with a few large and many small firms , the large firms may support a trade association to lobby for industry-wide benefits because they get large benefits from it , even though the small firms also benefit from its success without joining . |
| 22 | Although the teams have an important role in constructing the plan , they have tended to be marginalised because they control few resources . |
| 23 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |
| 24 | Italy won because they made fewer mistakes . ’ |
| 25 | Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms . |
| 26 | Do n't use extra lights unless you have to because they make small spaces very hot very quickly and they can make a classroom recording a very uncomfortable experience for everyone . |
| 27 | Some people like prison because they make more friends in there . |
| 28 | Oh they do yes , well because nowadays , because they got more men on each job now than they really want . |
| 29 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 30 | The 1980 Women and Employment Survey showed that 36 per cent of employed women were not eligible for redundancy payments , primarily because they had insufficient lengths of service ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 , p. 35 ) . |