Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 2 | I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters . |
| 3 | ‘ But I remember singing solos when I was six because I could carry a tune . |
| 4 | I had become something of an expert in the leisure market , and to many of the institutional buyers had some spurious extra authority simply because I could hit a golf ball further and straighter than they could . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 6 | No do a couple please if you do n't mind , because you might need a couple spare |
| 7 | But it 's also useful for yourself , because you can forget a couple of steps , even though you 've built this spreadsheet , and er , when you update this spreadsheet for the following months , you know , occasionally you might forget a step . |
| 8 | That you 're not just in isolation , looking at one little thing , because you can miss a lot . |
| 9 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 10 | ‘ If you look at Chemicals & Polymers now , the majority of research is market and demand led , being done because you can see a customer need . |
| 11 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 12 | Just because you can buy a scanner which will capture photographs and drawings does n't mean that it is necessarily the best way . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 14 | So I I I mean , but I do n't know whether to take it today or you know because she 'll get a lot of things given her today . |
| 15 | ‘ We look like going out and that 's a shame because we might learn a bit more . |
| 16 | ‘ But look here , ’ said Floy , ‘ you wo n't have to do it , because we 'll find a way of taking you with us . ’ |
| 17 | We have another in erm on Thompson 's Directory , we said we were asked if we would like a mention there , and that has been put in hand , with at the moment the Chairman 's name and address and telephone number , but when we get our office I 've no doubt we can change that because we 'll have a rota for the office and probably just morning hours and that can go in another copy . |
| 18 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 19 | The tremendous problems that they have need addressing and we should be there , not because we can reap the benefits necessarily in funding , although of course that would help , but because we can lend a hand , because we can reach out Local Authority and in my view that is also what the people of would want this Council to do . |
| 20 | And we 've got to fancy our chances in the replay up there because we can play a lot better than that . ’ |
| 21 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 22 | He 's engaged and they 're saving up to get married , but Helen and him thought it 'd be better to buy one now because they 'll have a lot of expenses after they 're married and wo n't have Helen 's wages . ’ |
| 23 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 24 | These two new clauses are important , and the Government should be able to accept them , because they would ensure a right to independent legal advice and a choice of that advice . |
| 25 | The older ones were pleased because they would get a lot of money , the younger ones were upset because they were thinking about the future . |
| 26 | If holders of speculative balances are of the general opinion that the price of bonds will fall in the near future ( i.e. their yield will rise ) , then they will not purchase these assets now because they will suffer a capital loss if their expectations are borne out by experience . |
| 27 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 28 | The Business Plan goes back with the letter because they will require a copy of the business plan so that they when they see you at three , six , twelve and eighteen months |
| 29 | Your copy will say where it is , less likely to get lost , people will know because he 'll have a copy and can tell your beneficiaries to go an see a solicitor . |
| 30 | So er it was decided that he it would be one man because he would give a hand . |