Example sentences of "because [pron] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | Now , I did n't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread . |
| 4 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 5 | ‘ They called me Papa because I was the eldest , three years older than Gifford , six years older than Eddie . ’ |
| 6 | They chose the state railways because theirs was the lowest bid . |
| 7 | ‘ Because you are the greatest voice Gesner has ever sung with . |
| 8 | We do n't send more papers out to external referees because we do n't want to exhaust this valuable resource ( even though we have about 2500 referees on our database ) and because we are the best judge of issues like whether the paper belongs in the BMJ or another sort of journal . |
| 9 | This deployment of weapons , with the fast-firers mounted high , is because we are the tallest Titan , and will aim over the Warlords ' shoulders … |
| 10 | So because we were the largest we took we in conjunction with people like Redland Roof Tiles and er |
| 11 | Save The Children benefited from that event and the publicity , because we were the quickest off the mark in responding to the Star Cafe 's request to help with their anniversary event . |
| 12 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 13 | Just because they 're the youngest year in the school does n't mean they 're gon na go round and , you know erm and copy what oth no that 's , no I 'm sorry Charlotte |
| 14 | To be perfectly honest with you because they 're the shakiest ones . |
| 15 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 16 | The phrase " come to the end of our " suggests a pleasant , shared experience or excursion ; and the expression " oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe " calls to mind less the language of analysis or scholarship than that of advertising or publicity ( where things are valued because they are the best , the oldest , etc . ) . |
| 17 | It 's because they are the best memories of my life . |
| 18 | Several commentators theorize that dinosaurs may have had hearts like crocodilians , perhaps because they are the closest living relatives to the archosaur . |
| 19 | One of his customers was Horace Walpole [ q.v. ] of Strawberry Hill , who described some of his purchases from ‘ the nurseryman at Fulham ’ in a letter of 8 November 1755 to George Montagu : ‘ I mention cedars [ of Lebanon ] first , because they are the most beautiful of the evergreen race , and because they are the dearest ; half a guinea apiece in baskets … |
| 20 | ‘ Victor does a marvellous job in the loose for Bath because they are the strongest club side in England and therefore their pack give him the chance to run free . |
| 21 | I collected Nazi memorabilia because they were the baddest guys ever and I always liked bad guys . ’ |
| 22 | The section we chose were the ones that were chosen by the pathologist because they were the best representative sample of that tumour . |
| 23 | . Of course , we had to have good quality tools , we had er er now , we had Spear and Jackson saws , always , because they was the best quality . |
| 24 | look , yes you are , you er , you 're mummy puts you in the front , but she 's a lot taller than I am , and she can tip it up easier , I need James in the front because he 's the lightest , you 're the heaviest |
| 25 | And he 's dead fast , and he says he 's going to win the egg and spoon race and the sack race because he 's the best dad in the world . |
| 26 | Oi , you lot , you 've got to give us a bit of because he 's the youngest here , |
| 27 | If anybody had any opportunity of getting E Ten right , it should be the Department which the Secretary of State to insert E Ten , because he is the highest authority in this . |
| 28 | Said Rugby League public affairs executive David Howes : ‘ Offiah was chosen because he is the greatest personality in the game . |
| 29 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 30 | So on 29 October 1955 Fisher recommended to the prime minister that Bell be asked to move to York because he was the biggest person in sight and — despite his age — ‘ he might tide over for five or six years ’ ; and that Ramsey be invited to go to London , because that huge see would ‘ respond to his commanding ability ’ . |