Example sentences of "[noun prp] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
| 4 | She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature . |
| 5 | Cynics may suggest that we are required to admire Nelson Mandela because he is fashionably black , but it can not be that simple . |
| 6 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 7 | I mean , for instance , I have n't much sympathy with Edwina Currie because I think erm any false image because she is a very media orientated person and erm |
| 8 | ‘ Then I 'd say perhaps Harry 's sunglasses and pen and belt were with Angela Brickell because she took them there herself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 10 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 11 | The analysis is based on observations of professional — parent and professional — child interactions during the assessments of thirty children referred to the Schools Psychological Service in three LEAs because they were thought to have emotional and behavioural difficulties . |
| 12 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 13 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 14 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 15 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 16 | California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles . |
| 17 | I remember being terrified of going into Harrods because I thought King Herod lived there , and that I would n't come out in one piece . |
| 18 | Toby because they 're late they 'll have to miss the video . |
| 19 | er a property or something for Toby because she 's got to invest the money in |
| 20 | Mr Hrawi has not been able to move into the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda because it is occupied by Gen Aoun . |
| 21 | Mr Hrawi has not been able to move into the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda because it is occupied by Gen Aoun . |
| 22 | ‘ They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with other girls . |
| 23 | They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with any other girls . |
| 24 | IPSWICH Town may have had their minds on Saturday 's sixth round FA Cup tie against Arsenal because they were certainly a long way below their best against struggling Middlesbrough at Portman Road last night . |
| 25 | ‘ I broke my engagement to David Markham because I was in love with someone else . ’ |
| 26 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 27 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 28 | ‘ I myself have to go with Surrey because I am club captain — and that applies to several other players on this tour as well . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ An awful lot of things are changing which is foreign to Anfield because it used to be a very friendly club . ’ |
| 30 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |