Example sentences of "[vb infin] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day . |
| 2 | He says that Childine must survive because it has proved itself a lifeline for thousands of frightened , lonely and distressed children . |
| 3 | Although in some cases , part of the site may survive because it lies outside the area to be destroyed , more often the whole site disappears and only excavation records and finds are left . |
| 4 | A technique such as smoothing will not do because it does not ordinarily produce a linear outcome . |
| 5 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 6 | It did n't matter , the other half did n't matter because it did n't come into contact really with the with the shaft . |
| 7 | A seminal influence in this style of thinking has been Gilbert Ryle 's exposure of the category mistake , which implies that the most logically organized case may crumble because it turns out to depend on unnoticed analogies . |
| 8 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 9 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 10 | They actually did send teams of people erm , nuclear scientists to Chernobyl to try and get just how much damage was being caused and going on being caused , but there was , I think you probably do n't remember because it went right by |
| 11 | It wo n't work because it does n't address the real issues . ’ |
| 12 | It does not work because it does not meet the problems of intervention . |
| 13 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 14 | it , that you do use because it goes |
| 15 | He had a bike which she 'd stopped letting him use because it had become dangerous . |
| 16 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 17 | I thanked Paul 's wife for doing all the cooking , whereupon she remarked that she did n't mind because it meant that she did n't have to watch the Trek videos or play the games . |
| 18 | Mr Rushdie added : ‘ In any political issue silence is always the biggest mistake you can make because it gives the initiative to the adversary . |
| 19 | We do recognise establishment factors , that is adhesions in this part of the process and it is very clear that the capsule is one of the factors which allows the organism to pe , persist because it helps the organism to resist phagocytosis . |
| 20 | Because every person who comes in thinks ‘ this geezer 's gon na make me laugh because it says here he recalls Harold Lloyd , he 's a comic genius and he 's a continual delight ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |
| 22 | It does n't hurt because it 's pulled off so quickly , and when we pull it off , we put our finger straight over the area and it takes the sting away . |
| 23 | This means simply that there are actions that the executive will not take because it knows that the assembly will make a huge fuss . |
| 24 | At the April 24 ACE Executive Advisory Board meeting that Compaq did n't attend because it knew it was going to resign , ACE decided to invite the Open Software Foundation , a non-member , to participate in some fashion . |
| 25 | I mean , you think you give birth and you 're forgotten , I mean your health visitor visits your baby , and then you 've got the baby blues , and we we are trying to do something to get them to help and warn people about when they are pregnant it can happen because it does start then , not after you 've had the baby , it builds up and them wham , it hits you ! |
| 26 | Businessman John Foy and his wife Sally have been told the Pounds 250,000 house must go because it flouts planning regulations . |
| 27 | The earth does not spin on its axis for profit , the sun does not shine because it happens to have shares in a household firm . |
| 28 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 29 | I understand from the promoters that the project can not fail because it qualifies for tax reliefs under the business expansion scheme . |
| 30 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |