Example sentences of "because [pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ JUST because I was n't interned in 1981 does n't mean I 'm not a Polish patriot too , ’ fumed a member of the Karczmiska Communist party committee . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to do dance and drama , because I was n't pulled enough by drama on its own . |
| 3 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 4 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 5 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 7 | Was , was that because you were n't allowed to ? |
| 8 | She never had any politics because she was n't allowed to . |
| 9 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're silly , ’ said my mother , getting angry because she was n't used to converse of culture . |
| 11 | Once she was in bed with Edward Bear , the light out , the night shut safe outside behind the drawn curtains , Melanie cried a little because she was not tucked into her bed with the satin headboard and the striped coverlet . |
| 12 | Alexandra 's deafness had also one unfortunate aspect in that , because she was not given any formal education , she frequently appeared unsophisticated . |
| 13 | My sister was very angry because she was not invited as well . |
| 14 | She reached the junction of the lane with the main road , and there she waited , because she was not allowed to go on the main road with her cycle . |
| 15 | Then I became very angry , because we were n't given a choice about the use of these chemicals . |
| 16 | Then they let me get dressed , gave me a pair of slippers , because we were n't allowed to wear shoes , and said I had to wait to see the Governess . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 18 | One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes . |
| 19 | Despite these drawbacks the mid-year estimates undoubtedly provide an invaluable source and Champion ( 1987 ) concludes that for monitoring population change in England and Wales between 1971 and 1981 they may well be superior to the census ; Scottish estimates , however , he considers less accurate because they were not revised in the light of 1981 census results . |
| 20 | In those obvious cases , they have not been compensated properly because they were not covered due to a lapse of cover in the law . |
| 21 | The Icelanders protested , not because they supported the cause of Facisim or German expansion — given the choice they would doubtless have stood with the Norwegians , fellow Vikings — but because they were not asked to choose . |
| 22 | The Gurkhas were a useful bonus because they were not included in the Army manpower ceiling of 165,000 men . |
| 23 | They did so all the more readily because they were not expected to adopt any ideological formula but , rather , were able to put the stamp of their own opinions on the policy of a Party which had no set position of its own . |
| 24 | For many teachers the self-appraisal failed to be a major event , either because they were not required to participate in any review activities or because they were unable or unwilling to devote much time to it . |
| 25 | Where , for example , a tenant covenants " to keep in repair the demised property and the windows , window frames , boilers and air conditioning plant " it might be successfully argued on his behalf that he is not liable to repair the doors because they were not mentioned in the catalogue . |
| 26 | These included cigarettes , because they were not allowed to smoke in the Institution . |
| 27 | Celia and Dougal said nothing , partly because they were n't asked . |
| 28 | you would n't allow somebody else who 'd got the sulks on because they were n't interviewed |
| 29 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 30 | And of course the deterrents that we 've had , over the years , when they they 've been of the emotive and knee jerk sort , and I remember the short sharp shock for instance , under Whitelaw , they did n't work , because they were n't thought out , they were just to make them clap at the Tory party conference . |