Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 2 | But it says this could lead to ‘ presentational difficulties ’ given ministerial assurances that the ‘ actively seeking work ’ condition would not affect ET because it was voluntary . |
| 3 | One Bangkok stockbroker says that ‘ when people make investments because they want to see their name on a school in their home village , they are heading for trouble . ’ |
| 4 | On the other hand , one could give Sharon the benefit of the doubt and conclude she has n't bothered to wear knickers because she knows Michael will probably mash her against a wall and rip them off anyway . |
| 5 | Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present . |
| 6 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 7 | All the time I 'm either bingeing ( in secret ) or doing loads of exercise ; I really feel desperate to lose weight because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid soon , and I do n't want to look like a splodge at my brother 's wedding . |
| 8 | It also means you have real problems building relationships because you just expect to lose friends all the time . |
| 9 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 10 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 11 | ‘ Some women prefer seeing make gynaecologists because they find them more authoritative . ’ |
| 12 | A motor manufacturer will only be in a position to estimate revenue because they do not know how many cars they will sell . |
| 13 | Although well furnished , the annexe rooms , which led off from the rear of the bothy , lacked cosiness because they were so cold . |
| 14 | They actually look for strong leaders , or they want rules because they feel insecure without them . |
| 15 | and I 've only yo mentioned , well you mentioned money because you mentioned Harold Wilson |
| 16 | You changed direction because you followed the curve of the hollow . ’ |
| 17 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 18 | One man may believe he entered marriage because he was lonely , another because he was in love , a third because it was the ‘ thing to do ’ and a fourth because he wished to produce offspring . |
| 19 | Every day such people come to Britain and are still able to find work because they are determined to find it . |
| 20 | The other sister was er in High Wycombe , and the other one was in er Well she was in Creith for a number of years , And then she moved south because she was n't musical and there was no chance of getting of headmistresship in Scotland if you had n't got music . |
| 21 | ABILL improving guarantees on cars and household goods has a good chance of becoming law because it is being introduced by the MP who topped the ballot for private members ' bills . |
| 22 | Techniques can fail to meet expectations because they are applied without due regard for the culture of the organisation , for example the currently popular ‘ empowerment of the individual ’ will not work well in a highly systematic , centrally controlled management culture . |
| 23 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 24 | While intervention on the basis of protecting American lives might win approval because it could be classified as a humanitarian act , President Bush has apparently widened this to take in replacing one leader with another . |
| 25 | Shopkeepers have been told they ca n't protect themselves against ramraiders and smash and grab attacks because they 're in a conservation area . |
| 26 | ‘ The Fuhrer loves art because he is himself an artist , ’ Goebbels announced in a contemporary newsreel , at which , no doubt , all genuine artists looked uneasily towards the border . |
| 27 | Have Software City stopped trading because I could n't find their list of games in Issue 87 ? |
| 28 | I do n't think their audience cares about pop success , they do n't buy stuff because it is in the charts . |
| 29 | The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture . |
| 30 | As a late potato , as a keeping potato I always grow Wilger Now I grow Wilger because it , it browns well when it 's roasted . |