Example sentences of "things because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do great things because they are great , if the great things come along . |
| 2 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 3 | I 'm sure that 's true , but many of the letters I receive indicate that women are doing things because they , generally , have to live with leaking taps , bubbling pipes , cold radiators and all the other annoyances . |
| 4 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 5 | As she says : ‘ I want to bring them up with security , not to anticipate things because they will be disappointed . |
| 6 | As people act on things because they want them — the child wants a teddy bear , or wants something to eat — they begin to gain a sense of themselves as distinct from those objects . |
| 7 | I think about these things because they were domestic economies that we practised in the 1950s . |
| 8 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 9 | We 're frightened of what will happen and sometimes we have need to be frightened , you know , they are going to do very different things because they disagree violently with us . |
| 10 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 11 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 12 | And it should have a view on , on issues like education and transport , and those kind of things because they 're all critical to the long-term future of economic viability within Shropshire . |
| 13 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |