Example sentences of "[pron] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment officials — who argue that the convention should be theirs because it concerns conservation rather than aid — now appear to have won their case . |
| 2 | I really hate anybody who 's being horrible to somebody because it makes me feel bad . |
| 3 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 4 | But , but I said but , but that thing Trem , Trem like when she said to me do n't tell you but I told you because it concerned us |
| 5 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 6 | You get a lot of people who 'll tell you how to sing and play , and stop you because it sounds a bit out of tune , but he 'll say , ‘ No , there 's soul in there , even if it is slightly out of tune . |
| 7 | ‘ Even losing a goal is occasionally good for you because it brings you back to earth and helps you retain a sense of vulnerability . ’ |
| 8 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |
| 9 | The term ‘ community ’ in this context meant something because it had been experienced as such . |
| 10 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 11 | Methylation is now generally recognised as one way of switching genes off , and is particularly interesting one because it helps to explain a crucial but mystifying fact of multicellular life — the differentiation of the genetically identical cells of an embryo into the many different tissues of the mature organism . |
| 12 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 13 | Both high income commuters and lower income residents may resent development of this kind : the one because it interferes with their fantasy of the rural life , and the other because it pushes up house prices without providing any new job opportunities . |
| 14 | And there 's a twelve ohm which is a thinner one because it does n't let as much go through . |
| 15 | I know Japan is the country everyone points to , but it is the favourite one because it happens to show all the deficiencies of forecasting and combatting rivalry that are available . |
| 16 | Erm desk is a bit of a funny one because it 's just got the K. |
| 17 | I 'd rather pick this one because it makes life easier , you can see |
| 18 | I think it er , on reflection I think er I would discourage members from having a three-way table show I like the , the one-off you know , one against one because it works better |
| 19 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 20 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 21 | It 's important to them because it proves where they are in life , they do n't want to stay like where their parents were , they want to prove . |
| 22 | I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about . |
| 23 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 24 | The ERPS team are very fortunate that this facility is available to them because it has enabled the reconstruction work to be undertaken more efficiently . |
| 25 | Each test-tube contains the machine tools and the raw material , but so far it is sitting idle , doing nothing because it lacks a blueprint to work from . |
| 26 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 27 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 28 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 29 | I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of |
| 30 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |