Example sentences of "[noun] because [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 2 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 3 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 4 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 5 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 6 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 7 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 8 | ‘ The boss has refused to appear on television 's Football Focus because they are angling it as Dalglish v Keegan and , in reality , it 's all about the 22 players , ’ said Keegan 's assistant Terry McDermott . |
| 9 | Mom 's talking about staying a few years because someone 's offered her another show . |
| 10 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 11 | What she ( or he ) does n't realise is that you wo n't have actually lost very much weight ( perhaps two or three pounds ) , but you will look much slimmer because you are holding yourself so much better and have lost inches . |
| 12 | She was sent home after a short while because she was suffering what it looked like , a flu symptoms . |
| 13 | stories because they are encouraging it does make us feel that even though we are a small denomination that does not stop us from preventing new ideas which we can share and in which we can learn from each other . |
| 14 | They had n't got no kids , yelling and nagging at you the minute you get in , crawling all over you in the night because they 're cutting their bloody teeth . |
| 15 | TWO brands of a vaccine given to millions of children were withdrawn last night because it is feared they could cause meningitis . |
| 16 | It was there a bit because I was hiding something from my mother . |
| 17 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 18 | ‘ I suggested it , but she 's determined to wait until the morning because she 's hoping it 'll wear off . ’ |
| 19 | We were lucky last week cos half of us have got netball , half of us have got hockey , but last week because it was raining it was too bad for the hockey people to go out cos they co , with it being dark as well so we , we just stayed inside . |
| 20 | You are likely to be looking for the relation between the variable part of the text ( called the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE because you are manipulating it by making changes ) and the variation in the response of the reader ( called the DEPENDENT VARIABLE , because it depends on the variation , or changes , made to the text ) . |
| 21 | I 'm damn sure she has n't queried the bill because she 's said nothing about it before . |
| 22 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 23 | Film fans were raving over it even though many had missed key scenes because they were hiding their eyes . |
| 24 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 25 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 26 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 27 | Remember how we missed the last bus because I was kissing you — we did n't know where we were , or what we were doing , did we ? |
| 28 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 29 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
| 30 | Youngsters from Yugoslavia , Hungary , Germany and France … they 're huge , big guys because they were doing everything property from 5 years old . |