Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because it was conveniently placed on the edge of the Old City closest to the modern , developed parts where the more well-to-do lived , there were surprisingly wealthy people in its congregation . |
| 2 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 3 | Schisgal was terrific , perhaps because he was so beaten into the ground by that time , I do n't know . |
| 4 | They came flooding in because they were deliberately organised by welfare rights groups in those areas . |
| 5 | Those who draw up that plan should include — and not only because they are nominally represented on governing bodies — a wide range of community interests . |
| 6 | As John Sherry of Geoffrey Reid says : ‘ We hope we have designed a building which people will actually enjoy visiting , not only because they are there to do their shopping , but because the building itself is worth looking at . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps only because we are both bound by her spells . |
| 8 | It was only because it was repeatedly interrupted that it did not become all-pervasive , and ultimately intolerable . |
| 9 | that was only because he was like transferred there I thought that |
| 10 | In fact , it was only because he was chronically mean that she had lasted this long . |
| 11 | ‘ Only because you 're always fussing around me like a fucking jailer … ’ |
| 12 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 13 | I think it especially because you are much esteemed , even by your political opponents , for your exceptional personal qualities . ’ |
| 14 | An application for a loan from the Social Fund to replace essential items was turned down because they were already repaying one . |
| 15 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 16 | ‘ It was obviously right to do so because I was never corrected . ’ |
| 17 | The Taurus project , for instance , collapsed largely because it was repeatedly redesigned to please all the vested interests involved in settlement — many of whom quietly wanted Taurus to fail . |
| 18 | Welcome back:Hundreds of thousands of archaeological treasures are being kept hidden away because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 19 | Welcome back:Hundreds of thousands of archaeological treasures are being kept hidden away because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 20 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I enjoyed the race immensely because I was better trained than I have been previously and , of course , it is always rewarding when you better your personal best . |
| 22 | It 's not as if I 'm going to run off and have affairs with them just because they 're physically appealing . ’ |
| 23 | She sternly reminded herself that she was n't going to fall in love with the wrong man again just because she was sexually attracted to him , and she was never going to get married again . |
| 24 | You 're takin' advantage just because I 'm near crippled . |
| 25 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 26 | Rangers are winning matches because , from front to back , they are a side capable of beating the strong , not because they are regularly matched against the weak . |
| 27 | Not because they 're tastefully designed , extremely cleanly built and a pleasure to play — which they are — but because both the guitars we 've reviewed have a quality of sound that would rival a number of US-made guitars costing about twice the price . |
| 28 | Many a report has been unsuccessful , not because it was badly written , but because the writer visualised one type of reader , whereas , in the end , the report ended up in front of someone entirely different . |
| 29 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 30 | In the rectory garden the twins still laughed and clapped , more amused than ever because he was still standing there with his eyes closed , smiling at them . |