Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm he then goes on to talk about erm eliminating banditry erm wh which basically erm where the peasant associations are powerful enough erm , you know , where the people rise up bandi bandits do n't exist because the people have risen up and you know are , are , are strong enough because they 've got swords , because they 've got spears , they 've joined together to , to get rid of the bandits . |
| 2 | If the Empire was to be welded into an economic unit , the parts of which would be interdependent economically because they were parts of the Empire , and if this unity was to stand in default or in anticipation of political unity , then what was necessary was Imperial free trade , a genuine Zollverein . |
| 3 | Colonial tribunals were popular largely because they provided Sri Lankans with opportunities to use the power of the state , not because they efficiently enforced a widely-recognized concept of justice . |
| 4 | All the crew here think the Indians are fantastically primitive just because they do n't have radios . |
| 5 | And , if you do believe in the continuation of the spirit , you have the added comfort of knowing that there is no such thing as ‘ never ’ and that people do not stop loving one another just because they are on different planes . |
| 6 | But feuding and fighting are not acceptable just because they occur so frequently . |
| 7 | Others do this misguidedly because they want to ‘ make up ’ ( i.e. compensate ) for the child 's handicap . |
| 8 | Scores on behavioural catalogues may appear fickle from one context to another precisely because they are sensitive to subtle changes . |
| 9 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 10 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 11 | Films as varied as The 39 Steps , The Wicked Lady , Brief Encounter , The Red Shoes , The fallen Idol , The Spanish Gardener , Accident , The Draughtsman 's Contract , Another Time , Another Place and A fish Called Wanda are exciting precisely because they work to expose the social and cultural constraints to the expression of emotion , showing up the tension between the bland exterior and the seething interior . |
| 12 | The discourse strategies of a foreign speaker may seem refreshing exactly because they do not conform to conventions of the culture whose language they are learning ; on the other hand they may cause serious misunderstanding and breakdown of communication . |
| 13 | As we 've said before in this book , people do n't change that much just because they 're older . |
| 14 | And within the language-system of English , the sounds and letters of d-o-g are recognizable as such simply because they are not d-i-g , or d-o-n , or l-o-g . |
| 15 | That it is firmly tied must be correct ; the inhabitants of Brave New World are not autonomous precisely because they are denied access to relevant information . |
| 16 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 17 | Initially they were remarkable just because they are a simple three-dimensional nonlinear system of autonomous ordinary differential equations showing chaotic behaviour ; though many such systems are now known ( as described elsewhere in this volume ) , in 1963 such systems were almost unheard of . |
| 18 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 19 | Autobiographers are unusual just because they are writers . |
| 20 | ‘ So many of the other bands that come over are going to find it hard here because they do n't really sing and they do n't write songs in the traditional sense . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal and Democratic leader , said the other community members had ‘ not found her irritating only because they found her totally irrelevant . ’ |
| 22 | Women are not vulnerable just because they do housework . |
| 23 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 24 | Many supermarkets now have bottle-banks , but returnable bottles are better still because they save natural resources and energy — manufacturers need to be pressured into recognizing this . |
| 25 | These systems are useful practically because they can be easily miniaturised , they can generate a direct electrical output , can give continuous readouts , and they can be used in biofeedback systems . |
| 26 | Many deaf people complain , with some justification , of being treated as stupid simply because they can not hear , and many crippled people complain of being avoided , or pitied , and rarely accepted for themselves . |
| 27 | We know that we ought to care for the subnormal precisely because they are subnormal : they are weak , defenceless , at our mercy . |
| 28 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 29 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 30 | But it 's confusing now because they put the news on and you can watch the evening news on the first feed at five o'clock in the afternoon now in San Francisco . |