Example sentences of "[noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus says ‘ Happy are your eyes because they see , your ears because they hear ! ’ |
| 2 | I put my hands over my ears because I did n't want to know what was happening . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 9 | You already know some ‘ French ’ words because they are exactly the same in English . |
| 10 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 11 | attention decrement : subjects may ‘ hold on ’ to initial words because they get distracted or bored when they are asked to process sequential information , hence they do n't pay attention to later words . |
| 12 | It was Keith who answered , stumbling over the words because he was so eager to help . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't like long titles , and er , and erm , and I am wary also of the public protection words because I think they do infer , as , as was stated quite clearly at personnel , they do infer that the Chief Fire Officer 's somewhere in there as well , and he is n't . |
| 16 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 17 | So I had a market cornered and good access to American trips because I used to like writing about that , even though on the early stuff I must have affected a punk rock stance long after it was all over . ’ |
| 18 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 19 | ( The Congress in fact voted on April 21 to deprive four deputies , including Industry Minister , Aleksandr Titkin , of their mandate because they occupied government posts . ) |
| 20 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 21 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 22 | If you check with erm Dennis because they 're doing all , you know , doing the contract documents , he could confirm all the , the current addresses . |
| 23 | Partnership arrangements between a college and a company or companies might encompass a range of activities , including skills-updating courses , supervisory management and intensive language tuition for example , which fall outside the scope of this chapter because they do not impact directly upon the 16–19 age group . |
| 24 | However , we have chosen to discuss experiments on discourse and experiments on sentence comprehension in a single chapter because we see them as being closely related . |
| 25 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 26 | I make no apology for the title of this chapter because it was an expression which my cousins used very frequently . |
| 27 | However , it is a distinction we are going to maintain in this chapter because it has the effect of separately identifying the discount market . |
| 28 | The statues were probably made of cypress wood ; it was commented in later times that this was the most suitable material for cult images because it was so long-lasting ( Pausanias , VIII ; Theophrastus , Historia Plantarum , V ) . |
| 29 | Alex Brown thanked Mr Lang for taking the time to talk to the milk producers present but said : ‘ We know the final decision rests on your shoulders because it will be for the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide on whether proposals for vertically integrated milk co-operatives distort competition after the milk boards are deregulated . ’ |
| 30 | Hector is a brilliant soldier because he never loses the NCO 's love of discipline through drill . |