Example sentences of "because it [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 2 | Bona fide NVOCC 's would have no objections to this practice , but bad faith NVOCC 's would oppose it because it would prevent them from issuing their own bills on a ‘ freight prepaid ’ basis after they had obtained ‘ freight collect ’ terms from the actual carriers . |
| 3 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |
| 4 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 5 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 6 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 7 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 8 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 9 | No ordinary pink this , either , but a pink of a hallucinogenic vividness — Schiaparelli pink , you might say , although you probably would n't because it would make you extremely unpopular . |
| 10 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 11 | Upper socio-economic single girls were much more likely to say that they did not use soap and water because it would ruin their skin . |
| 12 | The Bild newspaper accused Charles of being a hypocrite and said a man who refused to divorce his wife because it would ruin his ambition to be king must have ‘ ice-cold blood ’ in his veins . |
| 13 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 14 | the transport secretary John Macgregor has been totally opposed to that because it would mean nothing changing in effect . |
| 15 | Well , if Dr Warner was reading it correctly , then that makes it even more private than ever , because it would mean my mother 's been lying , she must have some secret to hide . |
| 16 | Mostly , they bought on credit because they did not have the cash , or because it would take them too long to save it up . |
| 17 | If you come here once , be prepared to come back again because it would take you years to see all that Crete has to offer . |
| 18 | But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house . |
| 19 | I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ . |
| 20 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 21 | It really was a very good plan , because it would save her the potential embarrassment of André getting amorous over the starters . |
| 22 | You have to love each of us equally and worship God for His sake , not because it would please me . " |
| 23 | Calculators Plc should accept the special order , assuming that fixed costs are irrelevant , because it would increase their total contribution by £1,600 . |
| 24 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 25 | However , it can be quite useful to know how it is supposed to work , because it may explain what is going on , sometimes … . |
| 26 | Pupils need to learn that a biased document can be very useful indeed to the historian , because it may offer us insights into motives and attitudes of people in the past . |
| 27 | And according to Jacqui , the reason for this must be Steen 's fear of her being associated with him in the Sally Nash case because it might affect his chances of a knighthood . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only because it might hamper my investigations that I do n't invite you to tell Dysart about his wife 's in fidelity tomorrow . |
| 29 | Oh I should get that done because it might do something . |
| 30 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |