Example sentences of "because [pron] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That is because I am under this roof . ’
2 But it wo n't be tomorrow nor Friday because I 'm on late duty those nights .
3 from Liverpool Street I wanted to get to Oxford Circus which meant that I had to change at , I forget where now , because I 'm in such a , a muddle now after all this ,
4 Because I 'm in that business myself .
5 I was standing with him , you know , and two mates were there with their birds and I could n't because I was with this wee guy of 12 , watching him , and those fourteen guys got round me and wanted to fight with me .
6 Because I was on last night .
7 My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security .
8 I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon .
9 I did n't make it over there because I was at another party , but after the dinner , the night before last , they all went over to the Apple Playroom and started drinking , ordering from room service and making more .
10 Er actually that 's , the , the position becomes important , you see that would n't present a problem because I was like that
11 ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it .
12 I could n't even go out because I was in such a state .
13 She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty .
14 The home environment is private , you do n't have to drive back from the vets when you are upset and your pet is likely to be more relaxed because his is in familiar surroundings with the people he loves .
15 Contrastingly , if you take the initiative by seeking early retirement , perhaps because you are in poor health , you may not have redundancy rights .
16 because you 're on all play you 're stuck there forever .
17 er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ?
18 ‘ You may well look frightened , boy , because you 're in deep bloody trouble . ’
19 ‘ It 's more because you 're in this little room by yourself .
20 But I found it really helpful to have known you both because you were in both groups and involved in the Union and the EOP Working Party .
21 Because she 's near that ?
22 Mr Rochester himself knew she was not perfect , but he was clearly preparing to marry her , perhaps because she was of good family , perhaps for some other reason .
23 She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either .
24 All may be well in the Chamber because we are on familiar ground , but outside in the real world of fish markets and the North sea , all is not fully well .
25 Every human being makes an imprint on their surroundings because we are at all times radiating energy which is soaked up and stored by items around us .
26 I have n't had a chance to talk to my husband because we 're on different shifts
27 It 's because we 're like this — because of our people — that Courtaulds is successful .
28 Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’
29 Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged .
30 so , so it 's not gon na be there , and unfortunately it 's going to take a while , because we 're in such a deep recession and recession is bad , and it 's not getting any better
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