Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk upstream ; upstream because I can wade to the other bank if I need to and any disturbance will not carry far against the current . |
| 2 | Try using fine sea salt as a scrub — this will help dry out blemishes naturally because it 's slightly antiseptic . |
| 3 | I ca n't behave naturally because I must n't give offence . |
| 4 | Perhaps because her own was at that time lumpen and awkward she seemed to feel the contrast painfully — such high , generous breasts , such a neat waist , such slender wrists and ankles ! |
| 5 | But she looks troubled , unsure of herself — perhaps because her bosom is merely average , one has seen bigger . |
| 6 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 7 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 8 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps because its safe-haven credentials already looked shaky : it had also fallen when Iraqi tanks first rolled into Kuwait . |
| 10 | During their travels they appear to have developed a black variety which became extremely popular , perhaps because its natural nocturnal camouflage assisted it to become a more efficient mouser and ratter . |
| 11 | Blast is still going strong though , perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle . |
| 12 | He , and others , appear to have avoided mentioning the landau , possibly through ignorance of its identity , or perhaps because its subsequent delivery to Blücher inhibited reference to it . |
| 13 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 14 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 15 | But in the 1980s career-swaps became the fastgrowth area , fuelled , VGA executive director Susan Bloch says , by ‘ people who trained as engineers , lawyers or dentists — perhaps because their parents or teachers wanted them to — and loathed it ’ . |
| 16 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
| 17 | Staff of residential care establishments usually welcome more male residents and such men are ‘ a bit spoilt ’ , both for their rarity value and perhaps because their domestic dependence is more acceptable . |
| 18 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 19 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 20 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 21 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 22 | Everyday experience tells us that a flavour mixed with some other will be perceived differently from that flavour presented on its own , but a click and a light ( perhaps because they come from different modalities ) are less likely to interact in this way . |
| 23 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 24 | Normally noisy monkeys are unusually quiet during childbirth , perhaps because they are particularly vulnerable to predators when in labour . |
| 25 | Should the local authority refuse to initiate formal proceedings for some reason , perhaps because they are of the opinion that the odour does not amount to a statutory nuisance or they themselves are causing the offending odour , then an individual complainant may himself take summary action under s.99 of the Public Health Act 1936 , ( see Chapter 3 ) but may not bring proceedings in the High Court . |
| 26 | Some people who need extra care and can afford the cost actually choose it , perhaps because they understand the advantages of releasing a daughter and other family members from the 24-hour responsibility of caring . |
| 27 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 28 | Some may have lied deliberately , perhaps out of boredom , perhaps out of mischief , perhaps because they consider pollsters an impertinent nuisance . |
| 29 | Cost , or the need to plan within specific budgets , was more likely to be mentioned by the training officer group , perhaps because they were more likely to have specific budgets . |
| 30 | If the government decides to cut its expenditure , or if there is a loss of export markets , or if domestic firms decide to invest less at all interest rates ( perhaps because they are less confident about future economic prospects ) , then the unc line will shift downwards . |