Example sentences of "only because i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Only because I am very young . |
| 3 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 4 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 5 | Mum takes me only because I mentioned to her that my periods have stopped . |
| 6 | ‘ know nothing of , only because I might |
| 7 | ‘ Any sponsor would have to realise that although I might lose an occasional race when I could have won , I am able to run far more races and to winy many , only because I do n't put myself under any pressure by expecting or even wanting to win . |
| 8 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 9 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 10 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 11 | This was not only because I would rather have won than lost anything , but also because , winning being unlikely , I would rather have opted out altogether than lost . |
| 12 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 13 | We met mainly at meals , which I enjoyed , not only because I liked her and could still indulge myself foolishly and talk with her about our special patient in Marcus , but also as Daisy , being so near the end of her training , had several friends amongst the staff nurses . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 15 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 16 | I mean that would have been a disaster I mean it 's only because I was upstairs and I thought oh I can smell boiling . |
| 17 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 18 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 19 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 20 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 21 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only because I know you so well , Peachcake . |
| 23 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 24 | Or perhaps — such a suggestion rises in me only because I have lain next to the contagious soul of Gustave himself — did he gather it elsewhere ? |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'll answer the question , but only because I do n't want to give the impression I 'm hiding anything . |
| 26 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 27 | But not in a boastful sort of way , only because I asked her . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Only to you , ’ he replied equably , ‘ and only because I do n't fall in with what you want . |
| 29 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Only because I do n't have any choice . |