Example sentences of "because [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 2 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 3 | Is it because I am at a loss as to how to go on ? |
| 4 | I can not send this letter because I am always watched and I must never be a disloyal German . ’ |
| 5 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 6 | ‘ Only because I am very young . |
| 7 | It seems daft to have to send to America to buy a British product , but that is what I have done , because I am tired of being ripped off by every Tom , Dick and Harry . |
| 8 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 9 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 10 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 11 | Because I am a very poor man you made me accept a figure like six million lire ( £2,500 ) . |
| 12 | Just because I am a woman they belittle me , ’ she said to loud cheers . |
| 13 | Paint it I can not because I am not a painter . |
| 14 | I always found this kind of slick psychoanalytic one-upmanship irritating , but I never attempted to defend myself , because I am bored by argument and discussion of any kind . |
| 15 | ‘ I think the course is a success partly because I am a farmer 's wife myself , ’ admits Sue . |
| 16 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 17 | ‘ I know what the public wants because I am one of them . ’ |
| 18 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |
| 19 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 20 | The conductor will say , ‘ So that I can communicate my ideas to the orchestra ’ ; and the orchestra will say , ‘ So that he can learn the repertory at our expense ’ ; and the manager will say , ‘ Because I am paying for all this and I insist you rehearse . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I used to be called Shorty all through school because I am so small . |
| 22 | They buy the records and the video , so on days like this I must come out and see them and say ‘ Thank you ’ because I am in their debt . |
| 23 | But of course I am aware that people want me to do lots of things because I am Kylie Minogue . ’ |
| 24 | She heard that : — — Papa is grown stout and has need of bigger trousers but Mama cries he is more handsome than ever and so do I. I have little time my Lily to write because I am put to Latin with the Abbe which is sore hard work and gives me the headache . |
| 25 | Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary . |
| 26 | Because I am involved in mankind . |
| 27 | I can enjoy the experience of killing or being wounded fully , because I am not killing or being killed . |
| 28 | It is not because I am comparing it with petrols either , as I have driven diesels for 12 years or so . |
| 29 | Your affairs are ours , and if I do n't believe in it on principle , or because I am not mature enough for publication , neither do I despise ‘ vile money ’ . |
| 30 | An emotive example , to be sure , but sexuality is not a topic from which emotion can be expelled , because the categories of sexuality are experiential : I can not be purely theoretical about homosexuality , because I am not a purely theoretical homosexual . |