Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't call these er interviews I call them discussions because they are self employed positions and er I seem them as a business opportunity rather than a job quote job . |
| 2 | ‘ And your parents quite obviously hate my guts because they think I walked out on Jennifer when she most needed me … |
| 3 | Of course its members gain because they work in the service , but they put forward their views because they want to make sure that the service does not collapse under the strain and we do not have a repetition of the destruction that we saw at Strangeways . |
| 4 | Subordinates who accept the instructions of their superiors because they recognize its legitimacy rather than because they fear coercion are participating in the transformation of power into authority ( Pfeffer 198 1 , pp. 4–5 ) . |
| 5 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 6 | As children with special educational needs grow in reading competence , increasing demands are made on their skills because they are expected to learn through reading . |
| 7 | Of course you may get some probably some very good people a added , I do n't know wh wh wh they 'll be none of us knows , er they 're are going to nowhere that they 're going to get their expenses , they 're also going to get their allowances , I do n't know what those allowances will be er and I would n't assume that they 're necessarily going to lessen their independents because they receive allowances , but it is weakened , it is weakening the powers of the local institutions which are an essential part of our democratic society in this country . |
| 8 | And a lot have had to close their lists because they have so many would-be clients . ’ |
| 9 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 10 | The Palestinian Arabs left their homes because they were frightened , often because they had heard stories — accounts which were perfectly true — of the massacre of Arab civilians by Jewish gangs . |
| 11 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 12 | Many hard working people have lost their homes because they have lost their jobs or because their businesses have gone bust . |
| 13 | Supporting her , other women who say they could also lose their homes because they 're separated from their RAF husbands . |
| 14 | And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ . |
| 15 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 16 | What about the sweatshops of Korea , or the rich Kuwaiti women who buy merely for their own pleasure and hide their couture gowns under their abayas because they are not allowed to display themselves … it 's a far cry from the fashion world as it is usually depicted , it could make fascinating copy . |
| 17 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 18 | Senior personnel officer Liz Tait said : ‘ People who come to the party always say they have the time of their lives because they can mix with their former workmates and also have the opportunity to participate in a ware sale . ’ |
| 19 | Despite this , there are instances of visually handicapped pupils who do much for themselves in overcoming their limitations because they are really interested in taking part in sport . |
| 20 | Burun looked , but he could see only unprepared men who had not even drawn their bows because they were so confident of success . |
| 21 | The car makers Rover is doubling production of two of its models because they 're selling so well . |
| 22 | How do we know whether people gave money to their parents because they felt a sense of duty to support them financially or because they feared prosecution ? |
| 23 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 24 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 25 | Many children heard the news before their parents because they were listening to schools programmes on the wireless . |
| 26 | At prayers , MPs turn towards their seats because they used to get tangled up in their swords if they tried to kneel . |
| 27 | Eleven members of the Democratic Progressive party elected to the National Assembly have been barred from taking their seats because they will not take an oath of loyalty to the Republic of China ( the official name for Taiwan ) , only to the Republic of Taiwan . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case ! |
| 29 | One example of such confusion is the doctrine of diminished responsibility : the idea that persons should not be punished for their actions because they were under stress . |
| 30 | Fillis fed sugar and carrots to horses belonging to other people , and was convinced that the horses lacked affection for their owners because they started whinnying to him after a number of visits with the food . |