Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] because [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to get those decisions as quickly as possible , but they must be the right decisions because unless they are , the future of British farming will be under a cloud . |
| 2 | Erm one wonders whether that 's erm wise in the long term because once you 've closed down a coal mine of course you ca n't er re-open it very easily because the roof falls in and it floods and effectively you have to start again from er from scratch . |
| 3 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 4 | The effect of non-jurisdictional error of law is different ; the affected decision has legal effect from the very beginning because although it is wrong in law it is not illegal . |
| 5 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |