Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 3 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |