Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , because I like little children |
| 2 | Because I mean little kids are seeing father christmas and decorations |
| 3 | Because I have little patience for people who waste their time on idle speculation without any evidence to support their suspicions — and now , ’ he continued inexorably , ‘ since we understand each other , I suggest you go and have your shower , get dressed and eat some breakfast . |
| 4 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 5 | Thirdly , as mentioned above , because we know little about historical relationships between sign languages it is difficult to disentangle historical influences and similarities between signs arising from other causes . |
| 6 | Most people fail to change because they know little about how to alter their behaviour . |
| 7 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 10 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 11 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 12 | A top-level report to the Engineering Council said admissions tutors , who vet applicants for places at university , were reluctant to accept design and technology A-level students because they knew little about the subjects themselves . |
| 13 | Since there were two new staff at deputy head level , there were many things the head took on because they knew little about them , in particular the changes in the curriculum that he had made . |
| 14 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 15 | Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die . |
| 16 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 17 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 18 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 19 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 20 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 21 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |
| 22 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
| 23 | The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained . |