Example sentences of "because [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke had a passion for practical jokes-wetting people with hoses and putting itching powder in their beds — and he was a devoted animal lover , always surrounded by dogs and preferring the ugliest because no-one else would be kind to it . |
| 2 | Just her name , ‘ Sophie ’ , spoken close to her ear , because no-one else deserved to share the moment . |
| 3 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 4 | When a special tool has been developed , it is usually because nothing else will do the job as well . |
| 5 | But I think it could have been a White-tipped shark , because nothing else has the aggression to come forward and attack the boat . |
| 6 | Fernando Serra could believe what he liked because nothing now could bring back anything remotely like what they 'd shared in Seville . |
| 7 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 8 | ‘ In a small village , the most minor event is discussed endlessly because nothing very much ever happens , and everyone knows everything about everyone else … ’ |
| 9 | We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened . |
| 10 | ‘ But do n't fed any sense of anticlimax , because everyone here wants to meet you , and all sorts of parties are being arranged , and several people are going to be calling you in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | I say in particular our union because everyone here knows we probably have the largest and best training programme of any other union in Britain today . |
| 12 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 13 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 14 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 15 | Given scant information , one is expected to accept their procedures without question , and then pay inflated bills because everyone else does . |
| 16 | If it looks and feels good they should n't drastically change their hair just because everyone else has . |
| 17 | It is time Norman Lamont accepted he is out of step because everyone else is right and he is wrong . ’ |
| 18 | The business is either going forward or going backward because everyone else is going forward . |
| 19 | Is it just for the sake of appearances because everyone else does ? |
| 20 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 21 | In general terms , the more definite the bias is , the harder it will be to start in the right place because everyone else will also be trying to start there . |
| 22 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 23 | Because everyone else |
| 24 | What , because everyone else is |
| 25 | We have all heard the stories of season ticket holders being found to stand for a match because someone else had been allocated a ticket for that seat . |
| 26 | ‘ It was funny that me , a woman with all these kids , should get a part because someone else was having a baby ! |
| 27 | One of the houses has a light on , because someone else ca n't sleep . |
| 28 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 29 | ‘ For Gawd 's sake , stay put , you fool , because someone else is in this church and I 've got a funny feelin' it is n't just the Almighty . ’ |
| 30 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |