Example sentences of "[adj] because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they 're different because they have them they 're really controlled by a man in a signal box so they 're |
| 2 | When Americans see a band like U2 , they assume they are English because they speak English . |
| 3 | At the very least they are interesting because they formulated a number of assumptions about literature and literary study that still play a significant part in the academic world today . |
| 4 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 5 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 6 | Contract computer staff are also interesting because they differ from the traditional " temp " secretary . |
| 7 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 8 | Upright cabinets are the most popular because they take up less floor space . |
| 9 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 10 | ‘ Our books have always been popular because they provide a light-hearted , escapist , romantic read , ’ said a spokeswoman , Carol Cherry . |
| 11 | Competitors such as Bernis , Whitbreads , Bass Charrington , Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons have all begun to offer carefully thought out catering packages which are popular because they meet customer expectations in terms of food quality , quantity , atmosphere , service and price . |
| 12 | But these people are not nice , orderly , home-and-family-loving because they believe in God . |
| 13 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 14 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 15 | Why should those responsible for such crimes and atrocities against humanity go scot free because they have managed to escape justice for 50 years ? |
| 16 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 17 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 18 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 19 | Marxist critics argue that functionalist accounts of the state are vacuous because they consist of citing the consequences of particular actions as their causes ( Elster , 1986 ; also note 1 , p. 71 ) . |
| 20 | I 've also got to be careful because they 've got size eights upstairs as well that Robert got them |
| 21 | Be careful because they do n't want to be in a thunder storm . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister and all the other Ministers are wrong because they do not live in the real world . |
| 23 | Most CAD installations in the UK are turnkey units — so-called because they come complete and all the buyer has to do is turn the key and start learning . |
| 24 | The talk at this week 's London International Book Fair at Olympia was of recession and ‘ Aga-sagas ’ , so-called because they feature the type of characters whose homes would be incomplete without an Aga . |
| 25 | The sexually-transmitted diseases ( e.g. syphilis , gonorrhoea , AIDS and non-specific urethritis ) are so-called because they occur as a result of direct sexual contact with an infected partner . |
| 26 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 27 | I was up till three o'clock in the morning , very often , getting these prepared because they wanted them as quickly as possible , you know and er er it was the same when I , I do n't know when |
| 28 | Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional . |
| 29 | There is no virtue in producing socially well-adjusted members of society who are unemployed because they do not have the skills . |
| 30 | Some garden herbs are variants of a species and are quite acceptable because they retain their herbal qualities . |