Example sentences of "[noun sg] or because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past . |
| 2 | Most are grown commercially and come from just half a dozen varieties — usually chosen for their red skin or because they travel well rather than because they taste good . |
| 3 | Though mainly public gallery owners , the ADAA numbers a handful of private dealers as well , admitted because of their stature in the field or because they took their public concerns private . |
| 4 | This could be either because you have reached a voluntary agreement between yourselves regarding money or because you have both agreed on a clean financial break . |
| 5 | I did n't think of her ; I ca n't say I went because I respected her decision or because I thought it was in her interest ; I knew it was n't in her interest , or mine , or ours . |
| 6 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 7 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 8 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 9 | In other words , some women defined themselves out of the labour market because they felt that they were unlikely to get paid work or because they believed that they had no right to paid work . |
| 10 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 11 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 12 | Registration is compulsory — though voting is not — but there are still some people who are not registered either by accident or because they wish to avoid declaring their residence . |
| 13 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 14 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 15 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions . |
| 17 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 18 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu casually approved these , either as a generous host or because he did not recognize the value of rococo or recherché items . |
| 21 | Suppose you sometimes feel tempted to drive faster than the allowed speed limit , perhaps because you are in a hurry or because you decide that it is quite safe to do so and that the speed limit is unnecessary . |
| 22 | Women who did not deliberately choose to remain single out of conviction or because they wished to pursue a career , but who nevertheless ‘ got left on the shelf , were often made to feel that they were failures . |
| 23 | In FI , such people are tolerated by some : either because they are good company or because they provide ‘ services ’ , whether these be the producing of Mercedes cars which are then flogged off at a profit or the procuring of girls . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In some early drafts Raskolnikov commits suicide , and the striking thing here is that it 's never suggested he does so out of remorse or because he thinks he 's going to get caught or even from some vaguer , larger self-loathing . |
| 27 | At its simplest a job application can be a telephone call in response to an advertisement or because you hear there may be a vacancy with a company . |
| 28 | Students accumulate credits in individual subjects which they study , either out of interest or because they wish to obtain the award of a Group Certificate or Diploma . |