Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 2 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 3 | If I decided to play in it , it would not be because of $50,000 but because I felt better . |
| 4 | But people complain sometimes about the flushes , but I was glad when I had a flush because I felt better after having flushes ! |
| 5 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 6 | Sharon : ‘ Because you serve better cof fee . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't mind the hard training because you get better and better at it and it 's something to do . ’ |
| 8 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |
| 9 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |
| 10 | Just because we grow older , it does n't mean that we are not just as much in need of comfort from those around us . |
| 11 | But Philip Pearson of the independent Low Pay Unit said : ‘ It 's because we have lower pay rates AND less productivity . |
| 12 | Twin rear wheels tend to obstruct the load area because they require larger wheelarches . |
| 13 | Britain because they get cheaper labour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 16 | They arched up because they resisted further movement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Needles can be produced by simply pulling Leitz capillary on an electrode puller but such hollow needles can cause damage to tissue if they break because of the ensuing capillary action , Solid needles are preferable both for this reason and also because they have greater mechanical strength . |
| 20 | And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description . |
| 21 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
| 22 | This rude fellow in the green jacket had an advantage over Lieutenant Stapleton … he seemed able to get closer to Louise without discomfort than he could himself , no doubt because he stank worse than she did . |
| 23 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 24 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 25 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 26 | Because it gets better with the " spiritual " treatment of Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous . |
| 27 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 28 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 29 | I think it er , on reflection I think er I would discourage members from having a three-way table show I like the , the one-off you know , one against one because it works better |
| 30 | APT is impressive , not least because it comes nearer than any rival to retaining essential qualities of open outcry , a feat unmatched by American exchanges which profess the greatest attachment to traditional trading . |