Example sentences of "of [noun] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |
| 2 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 3 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 4 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 5 | She gave him a morsel of hope because he had always been so kind to her . |
| 6 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |
| 7 | As World resources 1988–1989 ( World Resources Institute 1988 ) points out , development of this type was initially considered to be more advantageous than other types of agriculture because it required relatively little new infrastracture , it could utilise abundant available labour and there was an expanding North American market for cheap pasture-reared beef . |
| 8 | And they 're not of course because what happens is if you follow their advice and put ten pounds into Global Investment for example then Global Investments will at that stage will pay them . |
| 9 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 10 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 11 | It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M. |
| 12 | and er er er er the situation is that you can , in , in some of these nursing schools where they have taught you and it is their letterhead that 's on your pass-out , they still are n't in a position to say oh well there 's a job of course because you do n't need to have passed out top , you know , to be guaranteed a job , there ai n't no jobs guaranteed for no one . |
| 13 | Populations of these species may not be able to tolerate this type of predation because they have evolved in the absence of ground-based predators . |
| 14 | Lucille noted how the girl refused all partners but that one man and she felt a surge of sympathy because she knew the girl must be in love , just as she herself was in love . |
| 15 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 16 | Thus the dead hand of the past presses heavily on the head of the present and gives corporate criminals a genuine sense of irresponsibility because they feel the corporation acting through them as mere passive intermediaries . |
| 17 | She is portrayed as a victim of a patriarchal and backward culture , trapped in a position of victimage because she does not have access to the resistances offered by Western culture . |
| 18 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 19 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 20 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 21 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 22 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 23 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 24 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 25 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 26 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 27 | A couple of lousy articles a month , stuff I make up and toss off and get no feeling from doing , just a feeling of disgust because it seems to be all I 'm fit for ! " |
| 28 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 29 | So I said we have a house full of rugs because we had rugs we had tiles |
| 30 | He was not guilty of theft because he had an intention to return , even though the handing back might be an indefinite period later . |