Example sentences of "[noun] because [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ . |
| 2 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 3 | Men are also able to gain the lion 's share of the floor in cross-sex talk because women provide them with ‘ hearer support ’ in the form of minimal responses ( like mhm , yes ) and questions — when you ask someone a question you cede the floor to them . |
| 4 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 5 | She inquired at the trading standards department about the legality of catapults but was told they were sold at fishing tackle shops because anglers use them to hurl their bait into the water . |
| 6 | It could n't have been David because David knew she would be out at work , and knew that Ralph was staying with her . |
| 7 | Lowe says his company went further than its original plans for a 5,000-mile range aircraft because customers wanted it , and that the GV and its performance figures are not a paper exercise or design concept , but a wind-tunnel-proven reality . |
| 8 | Some workers deliberately took less well-paid work because employers gave it out in the particular quantity they desired . |
| 9 | Tom had recently been referred by his mainstream school to the psychological Service for assessment under the 1981 Act because teachers felt they should receive additional support for Tom 's periods in mainstream school . |
| 10 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , well , you know I said you need n't feed the cat and water the plants because Barbs said she 'd do it ? ’ |
| 12 | Notice that at so young an age he knew that ‘ the Rev. ’ was better than ‘ Rev. ’ But the book was not orthodox in divinity because father locked it up and would not let Michael 's sister read it . |
| 13 | But Darren Whitehouse faced a charge of possessing the drug rather than a supplying charge because police believed he was lying to protect his mother . |
| 14 | Not even daily rushes either — the copter 's only coming in every three days because Vic thinks it 'll break our concentration or something no doubt posher intellectually than that . |
| 15 | These have been included in the FRED because respondents stated they found similar material in the discussion paper helpful . |
| 16 | Frankenstein was encouraged by his other teacher , Waldman , to pursue his studies because Waldman thought it would help mankind . |
| 17 | They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they 've only got an old banger . |
| 18 | These so-called ‘ comfort foods ’ may relieve stress because people associate them with pleasant feelings they had when fed these foods as a child . |
| 19 | Miranda remembered howling as a twelve-year-old because Adam treated her as a child . |
| 20 | The German government is to close five Soviet built nuclear power reactors in what was East Germany because officials think they are very unsafe and too costly to adapt . |
| 21 | The senior officer , an inspector , realizing that Myeloski was an important personage because Myeloski told him so , immediately set about arranging transport for the two visitors as well as booking accommodation in one of the local hotels . |
| 22 | Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable . |
| 23 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 24 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 25 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 26 | While he deliberated , Murray continued : ‘ I had the letter because Richard gave it me to post , sir . |
| 27 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 28 | In the West Indies , Jamaicans are called Yardies because people think we sit in our back yards all the time , thinking we own the Caribbean . |
| 29 | His wife is searching for the book because Ward told her he had it . |
| 30 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |