Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be because " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had known where I was because he had received all my letters , although I had n't received any of his . |
| 2 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |
| 3 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 4 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 5 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 6 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If other men are attracted to me , then they 're attracted to more of me than you are because they see more of me . |
| 8 | It is , however , not all that we are because we know that we also have feelings and emotions . |
| 9 | Now , if we consider the moon and the earth as a big system gravitational system there is now more gravity in the system than there was because the moon is supplying the of gravity of it 's own . |
| 10 | ‘ I imagine , Professor Summerfield , ’ his voice floated back to them , ‘ that it 's because we are under surveillance , and in any case we can only go in one direction — oh . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , so there 's all kinds of reasons why children from such situations would be more likely to be in trouble but I do n't think there 's evidence to say that it 's because of from lone parents . |
| 12 | But now I begin to see that it 's because I do n't know what love is . |
| 13 | There 's a rumour goes round that it 's because of something he 's said . |
| 14 | I suppose I should say that it 's because it would be best for her but of course it is n't , it 's because it would be best for me . |
| 15 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 16 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 17 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 18 | Chilcote and Edelstein argue that it is because of the type of industrialisation that has taken place . |
| 19 | He feels that it is because he has a high ethical and moral standard in his approach to sacred sites that he has earned their trust over the years . |
| 20 | Some say that it is because the church has neglected , in almost every generation , to create a true fellowship in Christ that we are faced with modern freemasonry or , more recently , acid house or the New Age groups . |
| 21 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 22 | Now I understand that it is because we were n't part of the system . |
| 23 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 24 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |
| 25 | The Church of Scotland audio-visual team filmed an interview with me about our methods , and too late I realised they were making a film about ‘ groups ’ , whereas I maintain that it is because we are not a group that we succeed . |
| 26 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 27 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 28 | Gazzer realized that it was because she was pleased with herself . |
| 29 | I did n't have a boyfriend , and I was convinced that it was because I was too fat . |
| 30 | After the election Mr Bryan Gould , when asked why he thought Labour had lost , replied that it was because the electorate was too ‘ conservative ’ . |