Example sentences of "[noun pl] because they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some women prefer seeing make gynaecologists because they find them more authoritative . ’ |
| 2 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 3 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 4 | Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high . |
| 5 | Walter is seen to be best in the care of his parents because they protect him and offer him a barrier against the outside world . |
| 6 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 7 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 8 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 9 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 10 | Militant Hindus have been trying to destroy the mosque at Ayodhya for years because they believe it was built by the 16th Century Moslem invaders . |
| 11 | As people act on things because they want them — the child wants a teddy bear , or wants something to eat — they begin to gain a sense of themselves as distinct from those objects . |
| 12 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 13 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 14 | The 1608 Lear is published by the Oxford editors because they feel it sufficiently different from the Folio version to justify seeing it as a separate aesthetic entity . |
| 15 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 16 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 17 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 18 | I mean , of course they can , they can make all sorts of wild promises and all kinds of crazy policies because they know they 'll never be called upon to carry them out . |
| 19 | We tend to favour simple geometrical shapes and sharply contrasted formal rules because they make it that much easier to distinguish right from wrong , normal from abnormal . |
| 20 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 21 | A lot of people are prejudiced against mares because they assume they are all temperamental when they are in season ; this is n't necessarily so . |
| 22 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 23 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 24 | The leaflet angered parents , staff and governors because they said it was full of misleading statements and the individuals who produced it had not identified themselves . |
| 25 | Palmer , seconded by GLEB to work with NoS , felt many people were naively attracted to the pops because they thought they were easier to do . |
| 26 | And Manningham dare not call the police because they convinced him his every move was being monitored . |
| 27 | We were deprived a show of hands because they knew they would be defeated and embarrassed . ’ |
| 28 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |
| 29 | They discovered that people in poor countries persisted in having so many children because they wanted them . |
| 30 | All of these groups were rooted in social relationships , and were initiated by the children because they found it useful and enjoyable to work together . |