Example sentences of "because words " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 2 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 3 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 4 | And of course I get a big boost when something like this happens , because words make plain sense , even though Tod always reads them backwards . |
| 5 | Because words have ares of meaning rather than points of meaning you must be alert for mismatch in meaning when you translate from your own language to another . |
| 6 | Because words change in meaning , it can be particularly useful to use a historical dictionary such as the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED existing as a multi-volume set , or photographically reduced , or on CD-rom ) . |