Example sentences of "because they [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 2 | Stories are recorded not simply because they happened , but because they reveal something of God and his activity in the world . |
| 3 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 4 | I 'll do it because they ask me to , but I do n't feel , like , ‘ Oh God , I 'm a big star signing autographs . ’ |
| 5 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 7 | Animals become territorial because they get something in return for their effort — food , for instance . |
| 8 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 9 | I think most people , especially women , feel there is something bad about the way they look , because they get it from magazines , which are full of beautiful models and the latest diet . |
| 10 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 11 | Consequently the women get it in preference to the men , because they take it at lower rates " . |
| 12 | They are immortal because of the cool temperature on Earth Six and because they eat nothing but fruit , a cooling food . |
| 13 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
| 14 | Hundreds of children are taken to hospital after swallowing vitamin pills , often because they mistake them for sweets . |
| 15 | At a general level the answer is easy ; it is because their families are unable to look after them , control them or because they cause them to be ‘ at risk ’ . |
| 16 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 17 | Surely the hears , minds and souls of people who love the hills are potent forces for good because they see themselves as guardians of these beautiful places ? |
| 18 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 19 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 20 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 21 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
| 22 | Answer : it is a mistake to ask such questions , because they lead you into the murky borderland between history and myth , where the evidence is fragmentary and the fragments point in different directions . |
| 23 | Pizzaland use green , because they want it as a more relaxed atmosphere , I mean there 's a lot in colour psychology , and I , I 'm not into it . |
| 24 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 25 | Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person . |
| 26 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 27 | Women who study the subject because they believe it to be solely about intuitive response may feel caught in this paradox . |
| 28 | In his letter to shareholders introducing the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative , JM Chairman David Davies said : ‘ Your Directors are recommending this proposal because they believe it to be in your interests as well as those of the company . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 30 | It is very important that teenagers should never feel rejected by their parents , either because the parents really have given up on them or else because they treat them with coldness and apparent disapproval or dislike . |