Example sentences of "so [adv] because [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamlet treats her so badly because he is angry at her lack of willpower against Claudius , the man he hates . |
| 2 | 16 ) of the evacuation of Attica that the Athenians took it so badly because it was like leaving one 's polis ; this is on the face of it a paradox because they were going from their country demes to the polis . |
| 3 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 4 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 5 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 6 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 7 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 8 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 9 | Surely we do n't want to rule out in advance the possibility that some moral beliefs , say , are justified , doing so just because we do n't want to admit the existence of moral facts ( if we do n't ) . |
| 10 | So just because you 've got those it does n't mean that 's what you are and that 's the way you 're always going to be it 'll change and it 'll change as time goes on it change as your role changes . |
| 11 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 12 | The book is read so easily because it is almost devoid of mathematical formulae , normally the very foundation of engineering work . |
| 13 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 14 | His legs are so long that when the rear tyre breaks away he can pick the bike up so quickly because he 's already on it . |
| 15 | ECOMOG officials , however , categorically denied Taylor 's claim that Ulimo had been able to advance so rapidly because it had received aid from countries contributing to the ECOMOG force . |
| 16 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 17 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 18 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 19 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 20 | Brailsford , Russell and those who looked to the US to enforce peace , did so partly because they could not convince themselves , in 1916 , that ‘ a revolutionary mass movement for peace ’ was in the making among Europe 's democracies . |
| 21 | It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background . |
| 22 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 23 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 24 | It 's that quick , choking defence that has frustrated Midlands , England B and The North so far because it does not allow the backs room in which to play . |
| 25 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 26 | Bruno was tall and naturally pale ; more so now because he was also very frightened . |
| 27 | It came to her later , as she started to do her homework , that Racine and Corneille appealed to her so strongly because their ways were hers . |
| 28 | I disapprove of diets so strongly because I think it 's wrong suddenly to deprive your body of certain foods . |
| 29 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 30 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |