Example sentences of "because they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 2 | Stories are recorded not simply because they happened , but because they reveal something of God and his activity in the world . |
| 3 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 4 | I 'll do it because they ask me to , but I do n't feel , like , ‘ Oh God , I 'm a big star signing autographs . ’ |
| 5 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 7 | Animals become territorial because they get something in return for their effort — food , for instance . |
| 8 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 9 | I think most people , especially women , feel there is something bad about the way they look , because they get it from magazines , which are full of beautiful models and the latest diet . |
| 10 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 11 | Hincmar puts in a significant phrase when he says that the minores who " confirmed " assembly-decisions did so " not because they were forced to do so , but because they understood them in their own minds and agreed with them " . |
| 12 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 13 | They took an end because they took them in a scheme where the kids actually got jobs what you 've done . |
| 14 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 15 | Consequently the women get it in preference to the men , because they take it at lower rates " . |
| 16 | They are immortal because of the cool temperature on Earth Six and because they eat nothing but fruit , a cooling food . |
| 17 | I think he fakes this , just because they had them in the books . |
| 18 | So they park that up on the pavement outside our wall did n't come to our gate but , and then did n't it obstruct Alan 's because they had it on the pavement , so anybody going down the pavement |
| 19 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 20 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
| 21 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 22 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 23 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |
| 24 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 25 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 26 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |
| 27 | At a general level the answer is easy ; it is because their families are unable to look after them , control them or because they cause them to be ‘ at risk ’ . |
| 28 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 29 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 30 | Following consultations with the British Speedway Promoters ' Association , the Board overruled the decision , made by officials at Exeter , because they believed it to be unfair . |