Example sentences of "[noun] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus says ‘ Happy are your eyes because they see , your ears because they hear ! ’ |
| 2 | These words — nouns , verbs , adjectives and some adverbs — are also referred to as content words because they express the main meaning in an utterance . |
| 3 | attention decrement : subjects may ‘ hold on ’ to initial words because they get distracted or bored when they are asked to process sequential information , hence they do n't pay attention to later words . |
| 4 | I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise . |
| 5 | ‘ Normally they do n't bother running through that in words because they open the sealed packages in front of the person . |
| 6 | Erm , I do n't like long titles , and er , and erm , and I am wary also of the public protection words because I think they do infer , as , as was stated quite clearly at personnel , they do infer that the Chief Fire Officer 's somewhere in there as well , and he is n't . |
| 7 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 8 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 9 | Partnership arrangements between a college and a company or companies might encompass a range of activities , including skills-updating courses , supervisory management and intensive language tuition for example , which fall outside the scope of this chapter because they do not impact directly upon the 16–19 age group . |
| 10 | However , we have chosen to discuss experiments on discourse and experiments on sentence comprehension in a single chapter because we see them as being closely related . |
| 11 | She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature . |
| 12 | I mean , for instance , I have n't much sympathy with Edwina Currie because I think erm any false image because she is a very media orientated person and erm |
| 13 | These figures , emanating from the Council of Mortgage Lenders , are challenged by Janet Ford who claims that they underestimate the number of people in arrears because they rely upon cross-sectional data , drawn from the experience of only the largest mortgage lenders . |
| 14 | I , do n't mind being used as a guinea pig because I feel that it 'll help people in the future . |
| 15 | Well this is my fear because I think oh God |
| 16 | No I do I think that 's wise to teach them in schools because they learn the right way . |
| 17 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 18 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 19 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 20 | These are the most interesting to fishkeepers because they occur mainly in tropical areas where rivers give high rates of sediment accumulations trapping pools and lakes of brackish water . |
| 21 | Will they assume that people engage in this ritual because they have always done so and have been conditioned into it ? |
| 22 | Some are antis because they do n't like Europe full stop . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 24 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 25 | Erm a drill , electric toothbrush probably use a transformer because you want to lower it er an electric shaver would use a transformer . |
| 26 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 27 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 28 | " They live on a boat because they think it 's smart . " |
| 29 | So we ca n't just realise the asset , dash out and build a house through a housing association because we have this crucial land problem . |
| 30 | Now I work for the Family Planning Association because they pay a salary as well as a bonus for each sterilisation . |