Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | No I do I think that 's wise to teach them in schools because they learn the right way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ They are going out and pinching cars because they 've got no money and nothing else to do . |
| 17 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 18 | Vale boss John Rudge said : ‘ We had a bit of luck when that shot from Regis stuck in the mud but I 'm overjoyed for our fans because I know how much it means to beat Stoke . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd like more drawing sessions because I like drawing and more football . |
| 20 | ‘ Some women prefer seeing make gynaecologists because they find them more authoritative . ’ |
| 21 | In addition it is freezing cold , and the mares are not wearing rugs because they have foals at foot . |
| 22 | Certainly , we deplore the practice of aborting fetuses because they have gastroschisis or isolated tracheo-oesophageal fistulla or oesophageal atresia . |
| 23 | The grammar of the language can be used to restrict word combinations because they do not combine arbitrarily to form sentences . |
| 24 | The bacteria involved in this process are known as chemolithotrophs because they have the ability to produce energy for growth from the oxidation of inorganic sulphurous compounds . |
| 25 | They nibble hungrily at my legs because I have less hair to protect my skin . |
| 26 | The RAF parachute instructors are at a disadvantage against most of the other seven nations because they have never been soldiers . |
| 27 | Typically , keys form broken sequences because they contain separate items of information . |
| 28 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 29 | To recapitulate : what Schopenhauer demonstrated is that music differs in character and origin from the other arts because they represent phenomena , while music represents metaphysical reality directly . |
| 30 | One of the difficulties that actually struck me last night about an organization like A B S A is that how wide , and in fact I 've got something in my filing cabinet next door which will tell me if I looked it up , how wide is the umbrella of the arts because we do n't have anything similar for sport , we do n't have anything specific |