Example sentences of "[be] [verb] because [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires ; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them ! ’ |
| 2 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 3 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 4 | England tour manager Bob Bennett said : ‘ He has been selected because we feel his experience will be an advantage to the side in this particular game . ’ |
| 5 | Please note that , whilst the above are not actual statements made by a serious accident victim , they have been selected because we believe they give a fair representation of the kind of problems which may occur after an accident . |
| 6 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 7 | Addicts do n't stop what they 're doing because someone gives them a talking to . |
| 8 | ‘ You are going because you want me ! ’ he snapped , giving her a shake . |
| 9 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 10 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't want to be healed because it means you do n't have to justify running away . ’ |
| 12 | The retributivist principle — that wrongdoers should be punished because they deserve it — is in some ways the complete antithesis of reductivism . |
| 13 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 14 | We deserve to be punished because we considered ourselves over and above the deceased . |
| 15 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm crying because I promised I would die unmarried ! |
| 17 | Only , to say that I I I would be opposed because I believe you should delegate to committees to run their affairs and their resources in the way they want to . |
| 18 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 19 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |
| 20 | And I mean you yourself , you know , during the Westland you you you left a cabinet meeting , apparently Mrs Thatcher thought you were going to the loo and you went on television to say , I 'm resigning because I think she 's got it wrong over Westland . |
| 21 | Now that Gleneagles do n't have the princes and the Glendevon , they 've just got that Monarch course now , more and more people are playing because they realize it 's it 's next door . |
| 22 | If the criterion of relevance is adhered to the research worker knows why information is being collected because he knows what it will be used for . |
| 23 | Several of the care assistants working at the homes were angered because they claimed they were not told what was happening . |
| 24 | More than 600 people a day die of a heart attack in the UK and many lives are lost because no-one knows what to do in an emergency . |
| 25 | I had been lost because I loved him . |
| 26 | i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be . |
| 27 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 28 | I understand what Morrissey is saying because he lives his life like me . ’ |
| 29 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 30 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |