Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] because [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May last year the Court of Appeal upheld a judgment against the friend for more than £5,500 damages for negligence because he had owed the accountant a duty of care . |
| 2 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 3 | oh , not very well , we erm , we stopped going after Christmas because we had bad chests both of us |
| 4 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 5 | She gave him a morsel of hope because he had always been so kind to her . |
| 6 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 7 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 8 | Populations of these species may not be able to tolerate this type of predation because they have evolved in the absence of ground-based predators . |
| 9 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 10 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 11 | He was not guilty of theft because he had an intention to return , even though the handing back might be an indefinite period later . |
| 12 | The practical joker , of course , is not guilty of theft because he has not acted dishonestly and does not intend to deprive the owner permanently of the article . |
| 13 | Just six weeks till the end of term because I 've got my books for six weeks and they 've used , date stamped in them is the last day of term ca n't be bad can it ? |
| 14 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 15 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 16 | If you have a reduced level of benefit because you have paid too few contributions , carrying on working is one way of improving your pension . |
| 17 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 18 | Lectures feed learners with information , giving them a feeling of security because they have notes which they may then be able to regurgitate when answering a theoretical question . |
| 19 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 20 | I am interested in the method of recovery because we have the highest levels of unemployment , the highest real rates of interest and a deplorable balance of payments . |
| 21 | This is a very critical day as you may be feeling a sense of relaxation because you have got this far . |
| 22 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 23 | So often we have fallen into the trap of jealousy because we have judged other people , or even ourselves or our situation . |
| 24 | So , we 'll forget all that , and we 'll just assume that what Freud really meant , was that people have sense of guilt because they 've been socialized to have it . |
| 25 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 26 | Historically , people were not led to seek a hierarchical classification because of a belief in evolution ; rather , they were prejudiced in favour of evolution because they had found a hierarchical classification to be appropriate . |
| 27 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
| 28 | But if money ca n't tempt Benn , Eubank hopes a reminder of wounded pride will , saying : ‘ Benn will always rate under me in terms of seniority because I have beaten him . |
| 29 | She was fond of Sheldukher because he had given her her dream weapon . |
| 30 | Someone may say that an official lies under a special responsibility of impartiality because he has accepted his office subject to that understanding , so these responsibilities are drawn from ordinary morality after all , from the morality of keeping promises . |