Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm just looking for some with lycra because I like to be able to afford a bit more . |
| 3 | ‘ I come over here because I like to be alone , ’ Charity said firmly . |
| 4 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 5 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 6 | However , if I am a regular customer and the stall owner gives me credit because I happen to be short of cash , I do have an obligation to come back . |
| 7 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Because I want to be alone . ’ |
| 9 | I entirely reject it because I want to be able to help my constituents to achieve their natural and legitimate aspirations . |
| 10 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 11 | I did n't go because I wanted to be rich . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't want something too fussy , ’ said Fiona , ‘ both because it 's my second time around and because I wanted to be able to wear the dress again ! ’ |
| 13 | But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child . |
| 14 | It 's quite dangerous , as well , because you want to be objective and you do get sucked into the picture they 're presenting to you . |
| 15 | ‘ Think you 're so bloody superior just because you happen to be straight ! ’ |
| 16 | She felt she must make sure he knew why she was doing this — for Marguerite alone and not because she seemed to be unable to resist when he held her . |
| 17 | And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ? |
| 18 | And we have n't tenterhooked this wall because we wanted to be able to open and shut this curtain so we 've adopted another medieval style taken from erm er medieval manuscripts . |
| 19 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 20 | ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra . |
| 21 | Centre — because we need to be able to cover the whole region from one central site . |
| 22 | It was clear from a very early stage of our Belfast work that to describe the inner-city phonology was a more complicated task than to describe ‘ middle-class ’ phonology , because there appeared to be much more variability within inner-city language than in higher status language . |
| 23 | It seems that most who enter care do so because there appears to be little alternative because they require high levels of care . |
| 24 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 25 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 26 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 27 | In contrast , forms of self-evaluation can be located towards the ‘ soft ’ pole because they tend to be internal , informal , descriptive , process-orientated and holistic in their mode of assessment . |
| 28 | Milla also said she steered away from romance with actors and models ‘ because they try to be prettier than me ’ . |
| 29 | However , several women who received no benefits also registered , although the majority in this position did not , because they desired to be self-sufficient and free from official agencies . |
| 30 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |