Example sentences of "because they be the [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Because they 're the sort of brainless beefoes who do n't know when a job is finished we get a re-run of their fantasies , and Rachel shrugs and walks away from the door .
2 And that 's what we 've got to change , because they 're the sort of women we need coming into parliament .
3 They are published primarily for the sake of their inherent scholarly and cultural value ; for the sake of the great prestige attaching to them , of which more is said below ( 2.9 ) ; and because they are the foundation on which all the other English language reference books published by OUP are based , reference books which are all highly successful in commercial terms .
4 I classify seven words as indicating probable problems with reading , because they are the kind of errors younger children would be expected to make : fritend , herd , crecher , dangrus , tow ( two ) , mac , mec ( make ) .
5 So I look to her neighbours because they are the kind of people GMTV is aimed at . ’
6 Balmoral in Scotland and Sandringham in Norfolk will not be included because they are the Queen 's personal property .
7 Such family connections were very different from those in one-industry occupational communities and are important precisely because they are the basis of interaction in civil society and relate to political action .
8 You should never assume that because they are the world 's greatest experts on retail warehousing that the job can be left entirely to them .
9 ‘ Our spirit is magnificent , and we are certainly not in awe of Australia just because they are the world champions .
10 According to this view , the state is a doubly important object of study , first because its institutions are a major and influential part of the political instance of capitalist society , and second because they are the key to the working of society as a whole .
11 When the Labour Government asked those of us in local government to exercise restraint on spending , we did it because they were the Government , and we were the local authority .
12 Because they were the part , they are the structure of the service as it exists at present .
13 Such old people may have little embarrassment with each other about bodily functions , perhaps less than some husbands and wives because they were the stuff of taken-for-granted childhood .
14 Above all , the hospitals actually impeded the patients ' treatment and rehabilitation because they were the object of contempt and fear in the eyes of many people in society — the high walls and isolation symbolizing that the hospitals held society 's rejects .
15 An important aspect of the slave 's position was the perpetual nature of slavery — slaves were destined to occupy this status throughout their lives , and their children in turn because they were the property of the owner .
  Next page