Example sentences of "[adv] because he [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps because he plays the field . |
| 2 | Eddie gets the best lines , perhaps because he has the most lines . |
| 3 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 4 | The chimney sweep is bound to the church , not only because he cleans the chimneys that pump out the soot that disfigures the church but also because the church preaches a kind of Christianity that can countenance beating , starving and insanely cruel treatment towards chimney sweeps . |
| 5 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 6 | Barro 's procedure ignores such restrictions entirely because he estimates the monetary growth and real output equations separately and does not impose the restrictions . |
| 7 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 8 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor [ Novell Inc ] is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 9 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface ( UX No 426 ) , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 10 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , what do you want his bloody autograph for , just because he reads the bloody news ? ’ she said . |
| 12 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 13 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |
| 14 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 15 | That in itself was a minor triumph for the Popular Front agitation ; Chamberlain moved partly because he feared the domestic consequences of not doing so . |
| 16 | Initially , used the effect to entertain children at the Leukaemia unit in St Bartholomew 's hospital , but when he found that scientists also were taking interest , he founded the Magic Penny Society , partly because he sees the new pennies as an excellent educational toy to excite children 's interest in science . |
| 17 | She had indeed shown little interest in the fields her great-aunt had left , probably because he had the use of them . |
| 18 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 19 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 20 | He could see the Bible as drama not only because he believed in the Devil but also because he read the Bible as literature . |
| 21 | The author succeeds in this difficult task , mainly because he takes the trouble to understand a topic thoroughly before writing about it . |
| 22 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |
| 23 | My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " . |
| 24 | One of the reasons why Robinson kept going , often when his legs were black and blue from bruising blows taken while fielding at ‘ Boot Hill ’ , was quite simply because he loved the game . |
| 25 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 26 | Yes , historical references , sure and literary references as well because he represents the arts amongst other things , whereas Nick represents the sciences . |
| 27 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 28 | Erm there 's the legendary Doctor Keat of Eton who er was was erm legendary precisely because he beat the boys so often and so vigorously . |
| 29 | On 3 October 1745 Drummond was forced to suspend payments — allegedly because he supported the Jacobite rebellion . |
| 30 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |