Example sentences of "[adj] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Well I , well I say , we 've looked at it slightly different because we 've only , we 've only worked together for five weeks .
2 It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place .
3 Well , they 're different because they have them they 're really controlled by a man in a signal box so they 're
4 But you think it 'll kill him from one o'clock in the night till seven o'clock the next morning , it 's , it 's ridiculous and financially were no different because you 've got to pay for digs you 've got to pay for the petrol
5 But I , I tell you , really , you 'd , you 'd and something different because I mean like you go to the Headway and it 's just the same
6 When Americans see a band like U2 , they assume they are English because they speak English .
7 Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never .
8 The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it .
9 Contract computer staff are also interesting because they differ from the traditional " temp " secretary .
10 His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship .
11 I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever .
12 I mean interesting because I 've never actually done the job that you 're doing .
13 Erm , I think that this erm , part of the agenda is most interesting because I think it 's other departments which also report back to the policy resources , which really , we as a erm , council do n't get much chance to see it 's doing .
14 Which is interesting because I think I saw her on Wednesday night .
15 Upright cabinets are the most popular because they take up less floor space .
16 ‘ Our books have always been popular because they provide a light-hearted , escapist , romantic read , ’ said a spokeswoman , Carol Cherry .
17 Competitors such as Bernis , Whitbreads , Bass Charrington , Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons have all begun to offer carefully thought out catering packages which are popular because they meet customer expectations in terms of food quality , quantity , atmosphere , service and price .
18 But these people are not nice , orderly , home-and-family-loving because they believe in God .
19 They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B .
20 Why should those responsible for such crimes and atrocities against humanity go scot free because they have managed to escape justice for 50 years ?
21 By the time you 've seen your third rapist walk free because you 've been cleverer than the prosecuting counsel , you lose the taste for that particular victory .
22 Monday afternoons I have to keep free because I like to take Mrs James — the domestic help — home and Friday afternoon Lucy has a dancing lesson .
23 We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP .
24 Opposition Members do not believe that is very generous because we know that the cost of putting together a serious buy-out offer is likely to be nearer to £250,000 .
25 Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop .
26 I know but they 'll think no but the bit that this happens , you know like they do get high because I mean take drugs
27 and because they wo n't break so easily and erm , they 're light because you do n't want to drag down to the floor do you ? basically
28 Marxist critics argue that functionalist accounts of the state are vacuous because they consist of citing the consequences of particular actions as their causes ( Elster , 1986 ; also note 1 , p. 71 ) .
29 The Co-op butcher was , had got his own shop lower down You could get everything in that one street and now in this modern age , we 've got nothing , we 've got to get on a bus and get into Walsall and so this is where it , we get infuriated because you know , in this progress we 've lost out have n't we ?
30 I am calm because I feel strong .
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