Example sentences of "as a [noun] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holdaway ( 1983 : 72 ) noted how lawyers were seen by Hilton 's police as a threat because they unmask police practice , and , along with doctors and social workers , they were considered ‘ challengers ’ . |
| 2 | The bourbon shrub rose ‘ Zéphirine Drouhin ’ is widely grown as a climber because it produces scented pink flowers and its lack of thorns makes pruning easier . |
| 3 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 4 | If they are fatally damaged when attacked , their deaths do not affect the population as a whole because they have already bred and are no longer doing so . |
| 5 | I really like him as a person because he cared and possessed other good qualities . |
| 6 | I was never aware of being frightened as a child because I saw his fits many times . |
| 7 | And I 'd like to bet there 's quite a few of the blokes down there ’ — she jerked her head to the side — ‘ look upon this war as a godsend because it 's given them a legitimate excuse to leave their shanties . |
| 8 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 9 | As such , it is the most important element in the structure of the clause as a message because it represents the very information that the speaker wants to convey to the hearer . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel disadvantaged as a cook because I received no formal training and did n't go to college . |
| 11 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 12 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority banned a radio advert of the Friends of John McCarthy to mark his fourth Christmas as a hostage because it broke political rules . |
| 13 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 14 | Uncle Buck is the obvious example , but the same can be said about brat pack action movies like Young Guns , family comedies like Parenthood , even blockbuster action like The Abyss double recommended as a trailer because you do n't have to put up with those awful cute aliens that turn up at the end of the film . |
| 15 | He has a pregnant wife yet has given up his job as a physio because it started to interfere with his rugby preparation . |
| 16 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 17 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 18 | 2 ) ‘ I used raisins as a reward because I did n't want my child eating sweets . |
| 19 | While the new book can be viewed as a hypertext because it has a semantic net to which paragraphs are attached , print on paper remains the dominant medium for the delivery of books , and Hypertext has also been generated in paper , linear form . |
| 20 | In Manchester , a deaf tramp who had roamed the country for 9 years was arrested as a spy because he had 55 Ordnance Survey maps in his possession , as well as two compasses and twenty crisp £1 notes . |
| 21 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 22 | Also , never think that Glentoran fans regard you as a traitor because you want to move to our biggest rivals Linfield . |