Example sentences of "because a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found a nice solid little stool , thrown away only because a leg was loose . |
| 2 | However , it is precisely because a contract is such a detached , objective way of dealing with emotional issues that it can work . |
| 3 | Most antibiotics are bacteria-killers , and because a fungus is a very different sort of beast , these anti-bacterial drugs do not kill off yeasts . |
| 4 | Because a boatman was always on the move , his wife remained in the Row when she married , staying amongst the relations and friends she had known since she was a child . |
| 5 | Ca n't put the handbrake on and sit on your hands with the alarm bells ringing because a babuska 's on her way home with her son-in-law 's dinner . |
| 6 | This was because a degree was part of the training of a gentleman , and not a technical qualification ; the scientist was as well-educated , though in a different line , as the classicist . |
| 7 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 8 | the misleading price indication related to a recommended price , which did not apply to the price at which the item was available from the defendant , and which the defendant could reasonably believe was generally being charged , and which was false only because a supplier was not following the recommendation . |
| 9 | ‘ The Government assumes that because a child is young , less well-qualified teachers are needed , ’ said NUT general secretary Doug McAvoy . |
| 10 | But it should not be built somewhere simply because a Bill is lying on the table . |
| 11 | But because a survey is a personal matter and a personal responsibility , you ought to insist on meeting the surveyor first before committing yourself to one particular firm . |
| 12 | There have to be priorities to meet all your needs — either because a service is not available , or because it is outside the money available — then you will be told this . |
| 13 | A woman barred her way because a service was ending and there was an aggressive demand for a donation on entrance instead of , in the British tradition , a polite request before leaving . |
| 14 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 15 | Since 1983 , changes in social security regulations have given private-sector providers of residential and nursing-home care the confidence to expand because a subsidy was available for those residents without means or who ran out of money to pay the fees . |
| 16 | ‘ We would n't allow a childminder to smack , because a smack is too hard to define . |
| 17 | Easier , he says , for a zonal defender like himself to switch to a marking game than for an Italian marker to change to zonal defence , ‘ because a zoner is all positional play . ’ |
| 18 | The inherited traits can be suppressed because a puppy is born with a brain that is not fully developed . |
| 19 | Unconditional strokes come with no strings attached and are given simply because a person is OK with you , warts and all ! |
| 20 | However , just because a person is called , for example , ‘ manager ’ , it does not mean that the task-leader role automatically goes with the title . |
| 21 | But may this not be because a society is an organic whole and the members could not live these lives except in it ? |
| 22 | However , because a Society is usually engaged by the builder during construction and the owner following delivery , the commercial conflict of interest generally rules this out . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you having a good meeting ? ’ , you know , and then of course all decisions involve human evaluations because a decision is a choice among alternative images of the future really and we evaluate these and pick out what we think is the best , obviously . |
| 24 | Still , even when I was young ’ — she was talking as if to herself now-'I could see no reason to stay up just because a date was changing , starting all over again , one , two , three , four , five . |
| 25 | Er not to costume them you understand but simply because a cloak is something that can be worn by a man or a woman and can be worn over whatever you have on . |
| 26 | Just because a system is multimedia does n't mean one must , by force of definition , use all of the technologies ; rather only those that apply best to the application , ’ said Pascale Buttaud , one of the system designers . |
| 27 | Because a company is a distinct legal person , created by a legal procedure , it can be brought to an end only by further legal processes . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 30 | He had grown around him a shell because a shell was necessary . |