Example sentences of "[noun] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus says ‘ Happy are your eyes because they see , your ears because they hear ! ’ |
| 2 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 3 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 4 | Like a chain reaction , such suspicions quickly breed upon themselves and in the convoluted world of intelligence find ready ears because there is always someone willing to denigrate another person 's opinions . |
| 5 | There are other less forbidding images : a shipping magnate with ‘ a kind face ’ , or a vicar 's wife who ‘ used to box dear Grandpapa ’ lovingly on the ears because ‘ he would sometimes slyly give the servant 's elbow a tip when his daily tablespoonful of brandy was being poured out . ’ |
| 6 | I put my hands over my ears because I did n't want to know what was happening . |
| 7 | RISING star Sonia has blasted The Eurovision Song contest because entrants do NOT sing in English . |
| 8 | The issue of their timing was seen by the opposition as of crucial importance in determining the fairness of the presidential contest because of the role of local administrators in the electoral process . |
| 9 | It is unfair to Moniz because he probably would have developed the technique of prefrontal leucotomy anyway and it is unfair on Jacobsen because the substance of Jacobsen 's work was that frontal lobe removal produced a severe cognitive deficit which no-one would wish on another person . |
| 10 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 11 | The leader of the ruling Labour group , Tom McCabe , believes the move will have the support of the electorate because ‘ we are aiming to give the people of Hamilton District value for money ’ . |
| 12 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 13 | we landed up with no idea of the description , on one of the pantomime performances because he would n't arrange the date and then |
| 14 | Crawford ensured that no one under fourteen would be allowed into the performances because of the strong language and much hopping in and out of bed — and he banned his grandmother . |
| 15 | ‘ His main job is to watch my performances because that 's difficult for me when directing , ’ explained Branagh . |
| 16 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |
| 17 | This pattern of performance suggests that these patients find it difficult to assemble a pronunciation , but they can continue to read familiar words because the lexical system , utilizing addressed phonology , is still working effectively . |
| 18 | It was Keith who answered , stumbling over the words because he was so eager to help . |
| 19 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 20 | I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise . |
| 21 | Steve used to sing backing vocals on it , but he was singing completely different words because he could n't understand what I was on about . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 23 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 24 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 25 | They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ . |
| 26 | Neither stacks nor queues are appropriate to store a list of words because of their FIFO and LIFO storage and access principles , however the linked list structure can be used . |
| 27 | You already know some ‘ French ’ words because they are exactly the same in English . |
| 28 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 29 | Lucien found it hard to doubt Azmaveth 's words because of the zeal with which she spoke , but he still had difficulty believing her . |
| 30 | Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable . |