Example sentences of "down because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 2 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |
| 3 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 4 | ‘ And they 'll be slowed down because they 'll have to be discreet . |
| 5 | The markets forced it down because they doubted the government 's willingness to keep interest rates high in a sagging economy — and who can blame them ? |
| 6 | An application for a loan from the Social Fund to replace essential items was turned down because they were already repaying one . |
| 7 | So coming here it felt as though we 'd uprooted and , they would never get their roots down because they were n't really |
| 8 | Many banks closed down because they could n't need new Government guidelines designed to stop the spread of the HIV virus . |
| 9 | Does he accept in particular that there is a problem involving students from Northern Ireland who have attended English universities and been recommended for further degrees and second awards , but are turned down because they are from Northern Ireland ? |
| 10 | A confidential World Bank report , released in early June , stated that clove and orange dealing monopolies run by Suharto 's two sons should be closed down because they were inefficient and went against the government 's deregulation programme . |
| 11 | Two trial drillings produced results that attracted the interest of several US companies , but negotiations to exploit the well for commercial use broke down because they insisted on full control over the project , which the St Lucia government refused because it considered it to be a matter of national interest . |
| 12 | Essentially the four areas are computational modelling , what contribution a do n't write these down because they 're not the same as the ones on the board , but it 's looking at the role of computational modelling in perception , although you could start off with a broader definition of it within cognitive psychology . |
| 13 | I mean to my mind if they 're opening on a Sunday they should bring their prices down because they 're opening that extra day they 're going to be taking extra revenue . |
| 14 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 15 | Well they do n't they keep there prices down because they did n't spend a lot on advertising . |
| 16 | But Notts will settle down because they 've made it one nil . |
| 17 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 18 | But I think the actual situation in some of these countries is that erm the loggers especially say like in Sarouac , where the government 's only granted three year licences to logging companies , they 're just going in there , cutting everything down because they 've only got a short space of time , and they 're trying to maximise , obviously , their profit . |
| 19 | But the council pulled it down because we 're not supposed to have fences . " |
| 20 | The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes . |
| 21 | Well I know but this is , but this is where we 're caught with our pants down because we have n't got the thing |
| 22 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 23 | Yeah , tell him to come down because we 've got to have conversations . |
| 24 | ‘ I think part of me shut down because he was unavailable and I was terrified of him dying and leaving me alone . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover , he was not one to turn an able man down because he was an ideological waif — but that is another story . |
| 26 | During our set Bill has to play sitting down because he has broken two fingers stage-diving during a Lush set . |
| 27 | He tipped her down because he was head over heels on your mum and she was calling your mum a prostitute . |
| 28 | Mark took these pictures down because he knew they would terrify his patients . |
| 29 | I had n't sat down because he had n't asked me to . |
| 30 | Er yes , erm I told him to calm down because he was quite excitable and to just stay there and somebody would explain what it was all about . |