Example sentences of "because they be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WE 'LL GET STUFFED if we try and play the game by their rules , because they 're better at it than us . |
| 2 | In these experiments , humans were used for convenience , because they 're good at following directions . |
| 3 | so basically what what will happen is that they put this order on because they 're cheaper at the moment and the next one we shall be cheaper . |
| 4 | They tell them that foreigners just want to laugh at them , but I think it 's because they 're ashamed at the poverty these people are forced to live in . |
| 5 | They tell them that foreigners just want to laugh at them , but I think it 's because they 're ashamed at the poverty these people are forced to live in . |
| 6 | But it will be a very difficult game , because they are good at putting teams under pressure . ’ |
| 7 | Because they are redeemable at a fixed amount , and because the dividend rights are limited , AMPS constitute non-equity shares . |
| 8 | Other poor dealers were kept on in dealing jobs , because they were good at answering telephone inquiries , or at dealing on government privatisations . |
| 9 | And I could rely on them because they were good at that job you see , particular job . |
| 10 | Many mothers felt the tragedy of the Athenia more keenly because they were upset at the prospect of their own children being evacuated . |
| 11 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 12 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 13 | Union members had turned out in such numbers because they were angry at the way in which they had to deliver services to the public without adequate resources . |
| 14 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |