Example sentences of "so [adv] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 6 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 7 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 8 | The 500 stars brake so violently because they are brave , strong and skilful enough to take advantage of the extraordinary power of modern brakes and the grip of the latest slicks . |
| 9 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |