Example sentences of "because they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , indeed some eighty ninety year olds do n't need any supervision , on the other hand some people in their early sixties may need to be looked after , and , you know , I do n't fancy the idea of anybody being able to claim allowances because they 've fit granny , erm , on the other hand anybody who needs to ought to be able to , and I think this wording secures that . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
5 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
6 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
7 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
8 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
9 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
10 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
11 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
12 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
13 | The smaller , specialised firms , on the other hand , offered more personal contact and service ; charged lower fees ; and , because they had fewer clients than the large consultancies , had access to a wider range of candidates because fewer executives were off-limits . |
14 | Because they had large paw marks , came the answer . |
15 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
16 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
17 | But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground . |
18 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
19 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
20 | String instruments always raised difficulties , because they had less power than the wind section , and their operators needed more ‘ elbow-room ’ . |
21 | Sometimes we need to employ contractors because they have specialist knowledge . |
22 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
23 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
24 | I have concentrated on the higher forms of life , not only because they are easy to observe but also to some extent because they have greater meaning for our own species . |
25 | Veblen ( 1922 , p. 237 ) , in his ‘ theory of the leisure class ’ , has drawn attention to the fact that it would be difficult to argue that we are ‘ naturally ’ inhibited against committing crimes because they have adverse consequences for others , since conventional and respected activities ( such as private entrepreneurship ) often manifest identical qualities : |
26 | If this inversion is only 100–300 metres deep , tall industrial stacks may release their emissions above the inversion , or the emissions may penetrate the inversion because they have great buoyancy due to high temperatures and fast exit velocities . |
27 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
28 | two minutes past , because they have two minutes of news I think |
29 | They need to because they have many enemies both above and below ground . |
30 | The firm also offers opportunities to travel because they have many offices abroad and internationally based clients . ’ |