Example sentences of "because [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 2 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 3 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 4 | Of little significance in the inter-war period , her ideas developed a new lease of life , both in Britain and the USA , after the Second World War , because her rationally expressed anti-semitism and pseudo-academic version of world history proved influential in themselves , as well as providing a respectable cover for more extreme ideas . |
| 5 | Because nobody ever said life was meant to be easy anyway … |
| 6 | Well not now because you only have Christmas trees at Christmas do n't you . |
| 7 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |
| 8 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 9 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 10 | Cock fights , however , are still legal in six of the United States , perhaps because we still eat chicken regularly , but no longer dogs . |
| 11 | Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back . |
| 12 | Business programs are difficult because they generally need periodical back-up from the supplier , and computers are not well enough established in schools for educational piracy to be worthwhile . |
| 13 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 14 | They will lose because they arrogantly believe power is theirs by right . |
| 15 | Florida 's Supreme Court ruled the men had no right to privacy because they willingly took part in criminal activities . |
| 16 | More conservative because they clearly derive inspiration from the old WEA extra-mural model , of the tutorial class seriously , conscientiously , and at length coming to grips with conceptual insights and analytical frameworks which appear remote from the workplace , and because they insist upon the vital contribution of the professional educator . |
| 17 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 18 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 19 | So beside a steel works you will have an oxygen-making plant because they actually use oxygen by the ton . |
| 20 | The pipe organ is almost unknown in the worship of house churches , not least because they seldom use church buildings . |
| 21 | These preparatory remarks were rather hesitant and repetitive ; I did not feel that extempore public speaking came easily to him ; but his readings were good , because they totally lacked affectation . |
| 22 | The anti-inflation programmes failed because they hardly cut government spending . |
| 23 | The latter type , the singles groups , are sometimes very successful at fostering friendships because they deliberately restrict membership to a certain category of people — for example , young professionals , graduates , or over-40s . |
| 24 | Because he also enjoys snooker , four years ago Marjorie took up the game , so that they could play together . |
| 25 | He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists ' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens . |
| 26 | The courts have sometimes appeared to embrace a rule that a person can become a constructive trustee not only because he personally receives trust property knowing it is transferred in breach of trust , but also where he knowingly assists in the breach . |
| 27 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 28 | Drysdale is nicknamed ‘ Milky ’ in the Hornets dressing room because he once resembled TV 's Milky Bar Kid . |
| 29 | He needs it because he really makes life difficult for himself . |
| 30 | No breakfast , because he never took breakfast . |