Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 2 | When asked who they will vote for , they are being asked as experts because they know about their own vote ; ask them who will win the election and they can only guess , rely on anecdotal information or regurgitate polls or commentators they have read . |
| 3 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 4 | Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order . |
| 5 | The bacteria involved in this process are known as chemolithotrophs because they have the ability to produce energy for growth from the oxidation of inorganic sulphurous compounds . |
| 6 | Kitchen chemicals , such as detergents , are bad for nails because they strip away natural oils . |
| 7 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |
| 8 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 9 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 10 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 11 | So I said we have a house full of rugs because we had rugs we had tiles |
| 12 | The house was full of moths because they had left the doors and windows open after they put the lights on . |
| 13 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The notion of ‘ adaptability ’ was always attractive to various groups of reformers because it appeared to promise so much . |
| 16 | The NRA displays such a terrifying range of weapons because it thinks it necessary . |
| 17 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 18 | We 've done relatively well in the past couple of years because we 've had a lot of petrol pumps , because of the new , the opening of the big supermar the , the supermarkets where there 's thirty , forty pumps go going , we make a fair bit of money in that way . |
| 19 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 20 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 21 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 22 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |
| 23 | Second , Rawls is anxious to make clear that the choice of principles because they express human nature ‘ is not a so-called ‘ radical ’ choice : that is , a choice not based on reasons … |
| 24 | Such costs are not assets as defined in the Board 's draft Statement of Principles because they do not provide access to any future economic benefits . |
| 25 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 26 | In other words , if you have a sixth form in a school you get so much so many thousands of pounds because you 've got a sixth form . |
| 27 | Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures . |
| 28 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 29 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |