Example sentences of "because they were [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were the sort of people who twenty-five years ago would have been deferred to because they were gents . |
| 2 | The outlines of its circular hall , the sweep of its symmetrical staircases ( the banisters surviving because they were metal ) , the gallery and the great dome were still apparent . |
| 3 | They were caught in a vicious circle : in low-paid jobs because they were women , while the jobs were low-paid because women did them . |
| 4 | Erm , we hear a lot about the holocaust that happened to the Jews in the second world war but not so many people know a lot about the holocaust that has happened to women over centuries and centuries where millions of women were burnt as witches , but er , just because they were women ! |
| 5 | because they were women 's work they were held in a |
| 6 | The Gods , in his opinion , chase after ‘ Daphne ’ and ‘ Syrinx ’ not because they were women but because they anticipated that they would turn into trees . |
| 7 | The players who might be worth persevering with such as Hinchcliffe , Cottee and Beagrie , are usually the fall guys ( surely not because they were Harvey signings ? ) |
| 8 | However , I think these guys did n't carry the weight with Goreng they should have done because they were Rebus 's associates . |
| 9 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 10 | It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys , they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else . |
| 11 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 12 | Did he hate them because they lived in Sea House , because there was the garden and the setters , because they were friends and he had no friends himself ? |
| 13 | For each martyr well known , there are thousands who are little remembered but who suffered death because they were disciples of Christ . |
| 14 | Recalls Gerrard : ‘ Ray and Diana were n't married then , although they would dearly like to have been , because they were citizens of the Republic . |
| 15 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |
| 16 | I was no fear of being frightened of them because they were part of the establishment . |
| 17 | Word went round the local Labour Club that the tenants could n't use its premises because they were communists . |
| 18 | Books from the other college were dispersed , presumably because they were duplicates . |
| 19 | Well , see these are the ones that I sent in and I did n't think they would , they would agree with because they were duplicates unless they found the original . |
| 20 | The companies had been closely linked with the King 's court , and were also open to attack because they were monopolies . |
| 21 | ‘ Because they were sadists , ’ said Sam . |
| 22 | Because they were specialists , the welfare rights officers rapidly became skilled and knowledgeable in interpreting regulations as they applied to mental handicap and established valuable ‘ precedents ’ as time passed , but obtaining adequate benefit support nonetheless became more difficult in the closing phase of our research due to changes in the social security system . |
| 23 | Then there was a little conservatory ; but those plants I was supposed to leave for Leo , because they were Dorothy 's special plants and he had special directions . |
| 24 | He acted out of moral considerations yet they could not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense because they were principles or considerations involved in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 25 | Remember the hospitality of ancient times , when weary travellers would be welcomed in ( sometimes ) and given food , drink and a bed for the night , merely because they were strangers in a strange land ? |
| 26 | People stared , not because they were strangers but because the couple were both men . |
| 27 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 28 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 29 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 30 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |