Example sentences of "[conj] because [pron] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then er revolutionary armament d dependents , farmers , workers , staff professional workers , peddlers and others who rent out small pro portions of land because they 're engaged in other occupations , or because they lack the labour power , shall not be classified as landlords . |
| 2 | In a sense that mechanism is the cause of the industrial change : the shift to a new international division of labour occurs because of the international market and the multinational corporations , or because they set the framework for profit-oriented production and investment . |
| 3 | This might be because they were estranged in some way before the person 's death or because they resent the person dying and leaving them to cope . |
| 4 | Some fungus is used as food for the Night Goblins and their strange animals , but many are grown for their hallucinogenic or intoxicating properties or because they affect the Goblin metabolism in some other way . |
| 5 | In practice when items of archaeological information , such as the date of the sculpture and its style , are taken into account , we can eliminate some quarries because they are not operational at that date or because we know the sculptors were working in certain places and it is highly improbable that they were using distant rather than local sources . |
| 6 | There are those who imagine , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that because they know the machine will not start they can afford to ignore it . |
| 7 | Some of them think that because they oppose the Smith regime they are automatically right . |
| 8 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 9 | True to the philosophy behind the series , the new titles have all been chosen for the quality of the writing and because they provide the satisfaction of a ‘ good read ’ . |
| 10 | They have the money because they have the glamour , and because they have the glamour they have the television , the media , the sponsorship , the grand stadia , the lush accoutrements for officials and plush hospitality boxes for the favoured — and yet more glamour . |
| 11 | It 's a long-established human set-up , whose name comes from the Old Arcturean quickspeak for ’ family Organization ’ — because they like to affect a patriarchal system and because they demand the same absolute loyalty and devotion that one would show to close kinfolk . |
| 12 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to get beyond the hype and because I suspect the real reason behind the criticisms of the leader of the opposition is because the chief executive did n't invite him on one or two of these trips , because |
| 13 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 14 | Those of us who now recognise it as immoral do so , not because we are compassionate , but because we recognise the equal rights of humans and the duties that follow from recognising those rights . |
| 15 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
| 16 | Recourse is already had to white papers and official reports not because they determine the meaning of the statutory words but because they assist the court to make its own determination . |
| 17 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 18 | These man-made gases are present in the atmosphere only in tiny amounts , but because they accelerate the breakdown of ozone , they increase the hazard of excess ultraviolet radiation . |
| 19 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
| 20 | Also , young children 's answers to examination questions may be off the mark , not because they do not know what they are being tested for , but because they misinterpret the examiner 's intention . |
| 21 | These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals . |