Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] because [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 2 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 3 | The fear is unfounded and can be eased by remembering firstly that the existence of sums of US$ in NOSTRO accounts is only possible because there has been a transfer into them from the US money stock . |
| 4 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 5 | The electric bill used to be so high because we had the electric fire on all the time and we used to leave the oven on as well . |
| 6 | I think it would affect their marriages , their inter-personal relationships , their co-habitations , the way that they deal with people at work , their sense of who they are in the world and how far they can go in the world , and I think that 's what makes the problem so serious because it has very , very long-reaching effects . |
| 7 | These cultures , viewed as being more outward-looking and less insular because they had very early on been maritime powers , were referred to as ‘ blue ’ cultures . |
| 8 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been terribly lucky because we 've had a lot of help with everything we needed for Rachel . |
| 10 | It 's going to be all so smooth because they 've had three hour training . |
| 11 | The garden is so large because it had been a ‘ deese ’ , meaning , in Sussex parlance , a drying ground for herring ; dried they became bloaters for which Rye is famed . |
| 12 | With another sigh , and feeling extremely awkward because she 'd obviously been foisted on them when they had n't wanted her to be foisted , she decided not to unpack , just take out the things she would need for the night . |
| 13 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 15 | We were obviously impressed because he 'd got a record released . |
| 16 | ‘ The Americans are so jealous because they have n't got a Royal Family of their own . |
| 17 | The word commitment is extremely important because whatever has happened , and goodness knows what will happen in politics , commitment to the Labour Party and loyalty to the Council will remain . |
| 18 | Northanger Abbey is only tolerable because it has been modernized ; like Sir John Soane , Jane Austen clearly feels that survivals of medieval ecclesiastical architecture are ‘ little calculated for the common habits of life ’ . |
| 19 | Although pressed flowers are basically only two-dimensional because they have been flattened , it is quite possible to use several of the thicker ones to build up a good three-dimensional effect . |
| 20 | ‘ I am so disappointed because I had the chance . |
| 21 | Actually , what you 'll find is that working mothers are extremely efficient because they have to be . ’ |
| 22 | When I meet them again it is so disappointing because I have changed so much , and they have changed so much , so it 's completely worthless . ’ |
| 23 | Birmingham is less attractive because it has remained the commercial centre of the Midlands . |
| 24 | She felt wickedly ashamed because she had been so cruel . |
| 25 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 26 | It 's very common for a women to be depressed after giving birth : if on top of that the parent 's hopes are dashed , and life seems desperately fraught because they have a handicapped child , it 's absolute hell . ’ |
| 27 | He is still guilty because he has violated God 's law . |
| 28 | Cars supplied for hire or purchase can be adapted to suit the needs of the individual , but the types of adaptation that can be made to hire cars is more restricted because they have to be returned to the general market at the end of the hire period . |
| 29 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 30 | Inside Newark 's award-winning display hangar , Prentice T.1 VR249 is receiving a repaint , the silver finish achieved being all the more remarkable because it has been rollered on , not sprayed . |