Example sentences of "[prep] [det] because they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 2 | But people do n't but th they do n't go for that they go for that because they do n't like the taste of chlorine . |
| 3 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 4 | It 's a big step for them to get out of that because they need independent housing and distance from the men controlling it . |
| 5 | They are fascinating not least of all because they possess , even as characters in a novel , an aura of mystery and uncertainty . |
| 6 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 7 | — " We know that the first bicycles looked like that because they 've got one in the museum . " |
| 8 | Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay . |
| 9 | Some people have great difficulty with this because they have blurred the distinction between a personal relationship with God and a ministry calling . |
| 10 | For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance . |
| 11 | They 're , they 're suffering from this because they want to , they enjoy it . |
| 12 | Nearly half of these people never attend a place of worship and quite often they are unwilling to use religious language at all because they do not want to be associated with a particular religious institution . |