Example sentences of "[noun pl] because [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARDON me if I do n't break down in tears at the plight of the parents who are having to take their children out of private schools because they can not afford the fees . |
| 2 | In Mandalay Burmans are making bricks because they can not get enough timber to rebuild their houses , tho' Burma is a land of timber . |
| 3 | If he does not enjoy his previous hobbies because he can not achieve his former standards , you can try introducing him to new , different ones . |
| 4 | They can not control outputs because they can not control customers ' or clients ' mental processes . |
| 5 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 6 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 7 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 8 | Register-shifting , while a possibility in certain sorts of text , is discouraged in academic texts because it can often have the effect of ironising your writing , something which is undesirable if you have to demonstrate clearly your knowledge and ideas . |
| 9 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |
| 10 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 11 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 12 | How children sometimes experience learning difficulties because they can not cope with the specialist language of science , as it is often used in books or by teachers . |
| 13 | That explanation distinguishes integrity from the perverse consistency of someone who refuses to rescue some prisoners because he can not save all . |
| 14 | They often restrict their social activities because they can not afford the services or assistance — including transport — which would help them to overcome the restrictions that disability imposes on their lives . |
| 15 | Sometimes , however , there is a problem in distinguishing ‘ learning ’ theories because they can easily become all-embracing . |
| 16 | I lost my friends because I can not see them now and they do n't have the money to come here . ’ |
| 17 | And it is feared Durham County Council may have to find more cash to subsidise bus services as operators could either put up fares or scrap unpopular routes because they can not afford to replace worn out vehicles . |
| 18 | Er perhaps they 're helpful to the historians because they can then put them all in a room . |
| 19 | Direct visualization of vector and covector components in space–time meets difficulties with the time components because we can only draw Euclidean spaces in our three-dimensional world . |
| 20 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 21 | The British Historic Buildings Trust is unable to pay architects , builders and financial backers because it can not raise money from most of the 33 houses it repaired in Hanover Square , Manningham , Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 22 | Where disabled persons are treated less favourably than others because they can not comply with a requirement with which a substantially higher proportion of non-disabled persons can comply , and the requirement is not justifiable in the circumstances , indirect discrimination will arise . |
| 23 | Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop now has many customers who come specifically to buy cards because they can not get what they want elsewhere . |