Example sentences of "[noun] because [pron] be [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mom 's talking about staying a few years because someone 's offered her another show . |
| 4 | TWO brands of a vaccine given to millions of children were withdrawn last night because it is feared they could cause meningitis . |
| 5 | I 'm damn sure she has n't queried the bill because she 's said nothing about it before . |
| 6 | Erm I suggest that it is the fox because we 're told it has a sudden sharp hot stink the fox . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well w we did n't have to do , do anything that way because we were allowed our freedom up to a certain time and that was it . |
| 9 | ‘ The glass around the dock is of course bullet proof because it was thought somebody might try and shoot them . |
| 10 | The book , by Andrew Morton , created a stir because it was assumed it was written with her implicit approval . |
| 11 | In December 1987 Mafart was allowed to return to France in defiance of the agreement because it was alleged he was ill , although the French government refused to allow a New Zealand doctor to examine him . |
| 12 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |