Example sentences of "[adv] because [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many families are struggling on , perhaps because they do n't want to consider residential care or because the right sort of care is n't available , ’ said Bill Barker . |
| 2 | The results of the clarification request analysis summarized in Table 4.3 show that although the younger children are asking for more straightforward requests for repetition than the other age groups ( perhaps because they do not attend as well as the other subjects ) , there are no significant differences in the other categories . |
| 3 | Perhaps because I do n't touch-type I did have a problem . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps because I do n't wish to be shot . ’ |
| 5 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 6 | But we are not going to condemn merely because we do n't understand . |
| 7 | I went in alone because they do n't know you . |
| 8 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 9 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 10 | ‘ Any sponsor would have to realise that although I might lose an occasional race when I could have won , I am able to run far more races and to winy many , only because I do n't put myself under any pressure by expecting or even wanting to win . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'll answer the question , but only because I do n't want to give the impression I 'm hiding anything . |
| 12 | ‘ Only to you , ’ he replied equably , ‘ and only because I do n't fall in with what you want . |
| 13 | ‘ Only because I do n't have any choice . |
| 14 | ‘ Only because I do n't like you , ’ she parried , and lost her breath as Travis smoothed the strap down to a position between her breasts . |
| 15 | Well , only because I do n't get one , they give you a weekend . |
| 16 | It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral . |
| 17 | They should n't be worn all day long because they do n't provide the support young feet need . |
| 18 | Oh what joys we often forfeit , oh what needless pain we bear , all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer . |
| 19 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 20 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 21 | I think so because I do n't know where we got |
| 22 | They seem intent on confusing you as much as possible — largely because they do n't what they 're talking about themselves . |
| 23 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 24 | Mr Ingham blusters and inveighs against the perfidious press at the drop of a hat — any story using the words ‘ bunkum and balderdash ’ as part of a denial are certainly based on his remarks — largely because they do not always print what he wishes to see . |
| 25 | It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes . |
| 26 | Erm so many people throw marks away because they do n't put thing down things that are obvious . |
| 27 | Just because we do n't always understand why does n't mean there is n't a reason behind what He does . |
| 28 | Surely we do n't want to rule out in advance the possibility that some moral beliefs , say , are justified , doing so just because we do n't want to admit the existence of moral facts ( if we do n't ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Just because we do n't faint or react the way you want does n't mean we have n't taken in everything you have said . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm not going to stop dressing the way I want to just because they do n't like it , but it 's discouraging . |