Example sentences of "[noun prp] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'd say perhaps Harry 's sunglasses and pen and belt were with Angela Brickell because she took them there herself . ’ |
| 4 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 5 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 6 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 7 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 8 | California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles . |
| 9 | I remember being terrified of going into Harrods because I thought King Herod lived there , and that I would n't come out in one piece . |
| 10 | er a property or something for Toby because she 's got to invest the money in |
| 11 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 12 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 13 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 14 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 15 | I remember a lingering preference for Ruth Etting because she reminded me of Marion Brown . |
| 16 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 17 | I married Edward because I wanted to live with him , and I still do . |
| 18 | Marie remained at L'Auberge because she felt that although Norman , the new chef , was qualified and experienced , he needed to be shown her way of doing things . |
| 19 | ‘ Customers are coming back to Billingsgate because they know what they are getting . |
| 20 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 21 | Twelve days before Soviet troops entered Afghanistan Amin gave his word that ‘ no Soviet military bases will be built in Afghanistan because we do not need them ’ . |
| 22 | I 'd ordered it because brandy always makes me thirsty ( noticed that ? ) and Lucy because she said she liked ‘ well-balanced , high gravity bitters ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I only stepped in at Royalbion because you 'd been knocked out . |
| 24 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm really looking forward to linking up with David because I believe we can go on to become every bit as good as the partnership I had with Ian . ’ |
| 26 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 27 | She did n't buy any toys for Josh because she had decided to open a toy shop . |
| 28 | I knew I 'd overdone the garlic in the Rogan Josh because I 'd been trying to impress Zaria . |
| 29 | Charman did not confront Gedge over his flirtation with Catt because he did n't want to cause a major disruption in the middle of a tour . |
| 30 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |