Example sentences of "[vb pp] just because " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delegates called for an end to workers being sacked just because they were sick or injured . |
| 2 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said the matter should not be dismissed just because Mr Brown had won his appeal . |
| 3 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 4 | Should not be treated just because it 's there |
| 5 | Mrs Stobbs , who lives in Killerby , near Darlington , said : ‘ It would be terrible if a wedding is ruined just because the chauffeur does n't turn up . |
| 6 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 7 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 8 | Why should you be condemned just because you 've put your money into your house ? |
| 9 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't see why this splendid open space should not be restored just because it 's 50 years since it was taken in a national emergency , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ She would n't have gone just because H.B. told her off . |
| 12 | She says it 's all happened just because she chose to marry an RAF serviceman . |
| 13 | My career is finished just because I lose control and take it out of a piece of shit like Jack Scamp . ’ |
| 14 | Shocking things had happened there and £160 000 a week was being lost just because there was no agreement on manning . |
| 15 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 16 | I 'm not going to get myself killed just because — ’ |
| 17 | The " me-too " opportunity should not be ignored just because of its lack of creativity . |
| 18 | He should have gone away to prep school at eight , but Claudia did n't want him to feel rejected just because there was a baby half-sister , so he stayed at home . |
| 19 | Notice how this is exploited in a Scottish radio advertisement for an automatic bank system that goes : ‘ Would n't it be helpful to have a bank that was n't shut just because it 's closed ? ’ |
| 20 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |