Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] because [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 2 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 3 | It would be too late so she said I really want to go because we went out last night you know |
| 4 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 5 | And I have said yes , because there 's a couple pairs of his trousers has ripped because he has put weight on . |
| 6 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 7 | This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united . |
| 8 | , Dr David Wheeler , a scientist working on a Department of the Environment project on the quality of bathing water , has resigned because he believes it lacks credibility . |
| 9 | The Chancellor 's parliamentary private secretary has resigned because he wants his say on Europe ; MP Tony Favell says he 's quit as John Major 's right-hand man so he can air his true views from the back benches . |
| 10 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 11 | This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land . |
| 12 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 13 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 14 | BAF spokesman Tony Ward described him as ‘ the best team manager Britain has had because he felt himself to be one of the athletes ’ , while Liz McColgan said he ‘ was n't just a friend through athletics , he was a personal friend as well ’ . |
| 15 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 16 | Life has been removed from Parsonian systems theory , and it is ironic that this has occurred because he found no place in his scheme for the death instincts ! |
| 17 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 18 | And it , er , er , cos I say demonstrated because we 've got these two people here , er this man and the little girl there who are obviously , erm on a visit to this mill watching what 's going on . |
| 19 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |
| 20 | Blaine says he was let go because he had found Vial in error on anatomical matters . |
| 21 | Can you spell out how our share of the cost has increased because our share of the work has increased because I thought presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 22 | Members of Council will know that the objective of changing the culture of the Council has gone because we 've largely done the job . |
| 23 | Now , of course , we we know that that you know , that that that that er , that even then , part of that settlement has has gone because they 've cut off on the of the Western by-pass , I mean , you 've still got er , er |
| 24 | Not angry but loving calls , which the midwife tried to hush because she had never encountered young women who could yell abuse so lovingly ; , |
| 25 | And if they get together neither wants to pay because they have n't done anything , we 've only taken the stuff out and put it back in again . |
| 26 | He is the kind of person you want to beat because you hold them in such high regard . ’ |
| 27 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 28 | Well , the crisis has arisen because we have both locally and nationally a shortage of teachers , both permanent teachers and supply teachers . |
| 29 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 30 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |