Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 2 | Some readers have grown accustomed to reading/watching/eating shit because they have never been offered anything else . |
| 3 | In this respect , pregnant girls at Arbour are also very knowledgeable and confident about giving birth because they have been so well prepared for it , and tend to sail through labour and birth without a lot of problems . |
| 4 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 5 | The Serbian authorities were also preventing 350,000 Albanian pupils and students from re-entering school because they had followed an Albanian curriculum . |