Example sentences of "because at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 2 | What matters is the contemporary nature of Saunders ' claims , not in abstraction but , because at a superficial level they , in common with similar work by Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) , Bauman ( 1987 ) , Pahl ( 1984 , 1985 ) and particularly Gorz ( 1982 ) , seem to make a lot of descriptive sense . |
| 3 | I knew how she envisaged it — all sparkle : the glass , the cutlery , the champagne , the eyes of the bride ; gleaming white napery , carnations and maidenhair fern swaddled at the stem in silver paper ; fallen flakes of expensive pastry , and the smart aroma of smoked salmon and asparagus blending subtly with the scent of flowers and wine ; loud voices and muted laughter ; sometimes a discreet tinkle of broken glass , because at a good wedding some breakage was unavoidable , indeed desirable , and evidence of an expansive generosity . |
| 4 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 5 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 6 | Frankly one of your a hundred and forty pounds because at a hundred and forty thousand pounds that is an insult |
| 7 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 8 | I include it here because at no point was it ever put to me in such bald and comprehensible terms . |
| 9 | Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more |
| 10 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 11 | Overfunding is not a way out of this box , because at the end of the day this too works via interest rates . |
| 12 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 13 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 14 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 15 | Sometimes rap was difficult to defend because at the time it was all dicks and gold . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes it was difficult to defend , ’ says Norman , ‘ because at the time rap was all dicks and gold . |
| 17 | In fact , the decision was taken because at the time the government was pursuing a policy of shadowing the Deutsche Mark , a policy which it could be called upon to defend in Parliament . |
| 18 | Had Mafart and Prieur simply abandoned the camper and boarded the flight they would have left the country undetected because at the time the police believed they were still driving around the country . |
| 19 | I would n't let is pass without thanking you which is the reason for this note because at the moment I have n't got that much spare time on my hands to thank you in person . |
| 20 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 21 | The problem is fortunately minimised by concentrating attention on the leading thrust sheet , because at the thrust front itself the amount of displacement is by definition zero . |
| 22 | ‘ In a democracy , that is very dangerous , because at the end of the day ministers are elected to take responsibility and if they fail in that , they are not doing their duty . |
| 23 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Because at the end of the day , if you do n't survive , what are people going to say — ‘ What a shame ’ ? |
| 25 | Graham was unhappy that his forwards again failed to convert a succession of chances against Ipswich on Saturday , and said : ‘ Maybe I 'll have to leave one or two skilful players out , because at the end of the day you have to win games . ’ |
| 26 | Also , it 's very good for your exports , because at the moment in Australia , say , they 're buying no hardback books and they will order a couple of hundred paperbacks by an unknown author . ’ |
| 27 | This is what we are seeking to do , taking our place in that gap , introducing folk to Jesus , because at the end of the day , this is what it is all about . |
| 28 | But they were n't checked because at the time he was renting a suite at the Crillon . ’ |
| 29 | We are also gravely concerned because at the Lavenham parish meeting Mr Tony Webster of Atlas Aggregates categorically refused to give an assurance that in the future they would not apply to extend the mining operation to other parts of Cross Green Farm . |
| 30 | I can not possibly reveal the name of the alleged culprit , because at the time of going to press he 's taken a well-deserved holiday in the ardeche from his climbing wall company |