Example sentences of "because [pron] happen to be the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'm keen to make my mark on my own merits , not because I happen to be the chairman 's daughter ! ’ |
| 2 | So we were popular , and courted popularity , because we happened to be the sort of person society preferred , neotenic , forever in the larval stage . |
| 3 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 4 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 5 | Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it . |