Example sentences of "because her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because her only defence was to turn him against her , she realised with a pang of sorrow . |
| 2 | But this change was chiefly because her international exposure was making her more sophisticated . |
| 3 | Oh mum I 've decided not to sleep at Helena 's because her nice brother 's gon na be there ! |
| 4 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 5 | Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’ |
| 6 | And then , because her first effort had been wrong , it was hard to know , now , if or when she was ready . |
| 7 | But she ca n't say more because her three-year-old son is in Moscow and she needs a job when she gets back there . |
| 8 | She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked . |
| 9 | In particular she disliked men , because her political analysis revealed them to be oppressors , and responsible as a sex for many of the worst aspects of our civilization ( war , the arms race , the stock exchange , rape , science , motor cars , additives to food , defoliants , hospital management of childbirth , competitions , multinational companies , cosmetics , pornography and vivisection ) . |
| 10 | This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement . |
| 11 | Just because her astrological theories were being proved right . |
| 12 | Yesterday Mrs Justice Ebsworth , sitting at Teesside Crown Court , was told the life of the child could have been saved if doctors had monitored the foetus ' heartbeat after Mrs Busuttil , then 26 , was admitted into Middlesbrough 's Parkside Hospital in 1984 because her general practitioner detected irregularities . |
| 13 | Dr Myerscough told the High Court at Teesside he considered not enough care had been given to Mrs Busuttil when she was first admitted to the maternity hospital three weeks before her delivery date because her general practitioner had detected irregularities in the baby 's heartbeat . |
| 14 | She left no will and was unmarried , so because her nearest relatives were her brother and sister , they shared her estate . |
| 15 | Gittins 's work is useful not only because of the way in which she highlights gender , but also because her empirical data broaden out from the household and show that women at least have , under certain circumstances in the past , been involved in the use of kin relations to maximize resources across households . |
| 16 | This type of teaching has obvious benefits for the learner because her special needs can be met . |
| 17 | Mainly because her own colleagues deserted her . |
| 18 | She had to be careful of kissing because her own mother had died of diphtheria caught by kissing one of her grandchildren . |
| 19 | She had resigned from her ambulance unit because her own mother was ill and had rented a house outside Glasgow so that she could look after her and still be near the port when their father 's ship came in . |
| 20 | Nor did she see coherence over a longer period partly because her own world was a social one dominated by friends , clothes , music and beckoning adulthood . |
| 21 | Even Great Britain was , in Bismarck 's eyes , a nuisance because her foreign policy might change with each general election ; reliable agreements with her were impossible . |
| 22 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 23 | The text written with a generally light touch ( surely some unintentional humour : ‘ Some people consider Rego a feminist because her main characters are always women and they are usually up to mischief ’ ) but the artist 's biographies are fairly useless and the glossary too short to bother with . |
| 24 | This is a goat , who because her main duty is to keep the grass in check around the HQ has been named ‘ Flymo ’ . |
| 25 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 26 | Because her public reputation was already established , she kept her own name , henceforth being addressed as Mrs Fenwick Miller . |
| 27 | Oh , and the ward clerk 's away because her little boy has chickenpox , so that 's more work for us , unless they can send us a replacement . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps it was because her few visits to Sleightholmedale had been fleeting or was it perhaps , George wondered , because she knew how overwhelmed they would feel if they knew the truth . |
| 29 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 30 | Because her precious daughter was too selfish , too bound up in her own misery to care that other people were hurt ! |