Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was devastated because I really needed the job . |
| 2 | Rumours about that Van Wyk — and therefore such successful current coaches as Harry Viljoen of Transvaal and Natal 's Ian McIntosh — were not considered because they never wore the green and gold . |
| 3 | I also think that we must be the place where programmes get made because nobody else wants to make them , nobody else would make them . |
| 4 | Third , in many cases policies are not evaluated because they often tend to be unsuccessful . |
| 5 | A teaching mode should be selected because it best fits one 's intentions and the needs of one 's students in a particular instance . |
| 6 | He was doubtless selected because he not only commands a vast classical repertoire , essential for one of the world 's great orchestras , but has also worked hard to popularise modern music . |
| 7 | Plans to send 350 troops to observe the cease-fire are threatened because there just is n't the money to pay for them . |
| 8 | The one Non-Conformist chapel referred to in the article has been saved because it subsequently became a parish church and thus qualified for the fund . |
| 9 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 10 | Well I 'll be done because I usually go for the paper Rose , quite often Harvey 's said she 's coming out along the High Street five past at five past eight on a Monday morning . |
| 11 | And evidence has not been produced because there simply is none . |
| 12 | " One " and " we " as ways of referring to yourself should be avoided because they now seem ARCHAIC ( old-fashioned ) , and in most cases pompous in an unpublished essay , especially if embedded in a more colloquial register . |
| 13 | Arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because I now understand that having nerves while you 're speaking is not unnatural it is n't something that you 're able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance . |
| 14 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 15 | In Word the simplest memory is the ‘ scrap ’ — so called because it usually contains scraps of text . |
| 16 | The first may be difficult to distinguish from the ventral arm spines but may be recognised because it usually lies between the preceding arm spine row and the row of the arm segment with the pore . |
| 17 | In addition , 10 patients were withdrawn because they either defaulted from follow up ( n=3 ) , all had moved away from the Sheffield area ) , or because they developed an adverse clinical event ( n=7 ) which led to a change in their treatment ( Table III ) . |
| 18 | I tried various methods , although I was a bit limited because I only have two-pronged transfer tools for that machine . |
| 19 | Some élite karateka have travelled all the way to an international competition only to be disbarred because they never took out their passports ! |
| 20 | According to this school of thought there is neither the domination of an officer nor a member elite but rather the domination of an officer-member elite ( see Saunders , 1980 ) but this joint-elite model can be criticized because it often assumes that , important as leading officers and councillors are , they have a monopoly of decision-making influence . |
| 21 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that ZBB was adopted by the majority of federal government agencies , it was quickly amended because it too , like PPB , proved almost unworkable in practice . |
| 23 | Several times , Gedge had persuaded him to stay with the band when he had become disgruntled and ‘ warnings ’ had not been given because he ostensibly wanted to leave anyway . |
| 24 | The hero next day was Russell , defending for over five hours without giving a chance ; not bad for a man whose entry into the Test team was delayed because he supposedly could not bat . |
| 25 | Captain Hymers did n't stay to see the coffee served because he then went on to visit another of his garrison units , namely the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital . |
| 26 | So Peter Abelard could argue that those who crucified Christ had not sinned because they genuinely believed that they were acting rightly . |
| 27 | This principle is warmly supported because it rightly treats the coast as a limited and special resource . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't compare her with any of the top horses I 've trained because I just do n't know how good she is . |
| 29 | In 1966 , Peter Bogdanovich , by then an assistant director and part-time scriptwriter for Corman , was given his chance to direct a thriller called Targets in which Boris Karloff was cast because he still owed Corman two days ' work . |
| 30 | The mood-altering substances and behaviour are still continued because they still work : they still alter the mood . |