Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | Because everyone uses one set of data , specifications are consistent , standards are uniform , there will be no inaccuracies caused by recopying , and products can be updated quickly . |
| 3 | Oh well that 's because nobody takes any notice about |
| 4 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's only because she thinks all you 've achieved is quite amazing . |
| 6 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 7 | She submits , not because she is threatened with or fears immediate violence , but because she feels helpless to resist in a situation in which he is all-powerful and she is powerless . |
| 8 | And more often than not , when I come back from me mum 's , I find little bits in the bottom of the bag because she feels sorry for us . |
| 9 | And that 's when I think it starts to get into into shady ground where where the woman has n't actually said no because she feels intimidated not by violence but by social pressure . |
| 10 | ‘ She had to deliver us here , but she ai n't coming with us because she gets seasick . |
| 11 | I think she 's just upset because she meets all her chums there . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 13 | She is not keen to eliminate all these sources of sugar because she derives such pleasure from them . |
| 14 | Now she will be a target for the Mafia 's bullets because she knows all of Falcone 's secrets . |
| 15 | yeah , that 's what I thought and , but if that was n't bad enough , my mum because she knows these things , even said that he does n't even say ho , ho , ho , Green Giant , does n't , they do n't even sing that song when they 're working they could n't sing , and you know the little corn on the cob man |
| 16 | I mean alright , you can see mum 's point in one respect , because she works nine till six every day . |
| 17 | In her company I feel she is my friend because she likes me , and not because she looks good beside me . |
| 18 | Strephon allows himself to be duped by the charms of this woman who , in Swift 's view , seems immortal because she appears clean . |
| 19 | Because she has mild heart disease , she may serve her whole sentence in the medical facility . |
| 20 | You know what I mean and erm she wants this job because she wants the money and , but I do n't really think that you know , she , she er , had the time to two jobs because she has three young children anyhow , I know that 's her problem , erm you know who looks after them or what . |
| 21 | Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job . |
| 22 | The ‘ expert ’ may have to be interviewed because she has special knowledge of a situation which it is vital for the researcher to have guidance on . |
| 23 | She has even formed her own film and video group because she finds most training films ‘ a yawn a minute ’ . |
| 24 | She has never hired anyone with a business-school education , because she believes such people are too rigid in their outlook . |
| 25 | The reaction in there has been a bit bitter really because one feels that British Coal are n't telling everything that that 's happening . |
| 26 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 27 | Shakespeare 's centrality has been achieved because there remains continued debate about the plays , these texts do not come down to us as ‘ dead on arrival ’ , to borrow a phrase from Stephen Greenblatt . |
| 28 | Talking about depression is not something we do much , which is odd really because everybody gets depressed and vast numbers of us need help from time to time . |
| 29 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 30 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |