Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] because [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained .
2 She had been born in Edinburgh but only mad chance because I think that the family were only there a short time .
3 So that we have , I mean nothing of design or anything just short information because I think it 's so
4 Poles have so far accepted yet more economic misery because they trust their Solidarity-led government .
5 These can incorporate religious truth in a far more effective way because they appeal directly to the imagination of the listener who can then recreate it anew .
6 In the matter of relating Christianity to economics this is a vitally important assumption because we face great cultural and intellectual pressure as Christians to adopt a form of dualism in which we substitute Smith or Marx or Friedman or Hayek for the divine revelation as the ultimate authority in this area of life .
7 They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories , and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways .
8 Most like slightly acid soil , although stone fruits ( plums , peaches , apricots , cherries ) prefer neutral or slightly alkaline conditions because they need lime for their fruit to develop fully , and blueberries need very acid soil .
9 You could be very happy if you are not putting your enjoyment in second place or you could be making the most enormous compromises because you lack the courage to go alone on the sort of holiday that you would really enjoy .
10 Sainz added : ‘ It 's been a really difficult rally because we have had to keep trying since the first stage .
11 As a result these groups are in a particularly vulnerable position because they have no able members to represent their interests .
12 During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns .
13 All marriages are special occasions but a second marriage is a doubly precious time because you do not take everything for granted .
14 Actually they do work well , I mean there is , there is one scenario where it does work well , if you 're elderly , and you 're in good health , then annuities are , are pretty good value because they look on their actuarial charts , if you 're an eighty eight year old , and er make an assessment and say well , for every ten thousand you give us , we 'll give thirteen thousand a year .
15 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 .
16 they came up to you if there 's two women together they assume that they have the right to talk to you , that you 're going to be interested in them , and if you tell them to get lost however politely , you can get a very , very unpleasant response because they assume that what they have to say is more important !
17 Because erm the , the erm what usually people say is that erm if you use your non-preferred area in the psychological sense , then it 's very hard work because you have n't got the same degree of control as you have in the other
18 Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall .
19 that , that Playback 's left , you know , for , for a very long time because I think you 'll agree and
20 It took me a very long time because I do n't have the kind of face which people immediately commit to memory , but if you keep popping up for thirty-five years , then inevitably people are going to say , ‘ Do n't I know you ? ’
21 I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise .
22 Leslie Evans , the council 's assistant director for arts and entertainment , said : ‘ The musicals we have had have always been on a quite tight financial squeeze because we have a fairly small theatre with about 1,300 seats .
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