Example sentences of "[vb base] because they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things matter because they directly lead to specific and major changes in the life of the Church , its worship and institutional structures . |
| 2 | This is bad for everyone ; the local authority complains that their money spent on the facility has been wasted , and motorists complain because they still have to get round the cyclists . |
| 3 | A report in New Scientist magazine suggests that dogs bark because they never grow up . |
| 4 | The underlying moral assumption is the smug conviction that the good and just prosper because they so deserve : lack of success is proof of immorality — there are no deserving poor ! |
| 5 | The mount for the .50 calibre machine-gun was still on the vehicle but the malais had found a use for the Browning elsewhere , I think because they also used the jeep to drive foreign journos around and it would have vitiated the claims to have pacified Danu if they 'd left it on . |
| 6 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |