Example sentences of "because [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , do n't take too long , girl , because I can not bear the atmosphere in this house much longer . ’ |
| 2 | I speak truth because I can not bear to live otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 4 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 5 | Because I can not speak , they say I am mad . |
| 6 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 7 | The going will be a bit tough , not because I shall use sophisticated techniques ( I shall not ) , but because I can not avoid producing in fairly quick succession a sequence of ideas which will be new to many of my readers . |
| 8 | Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you . |
| 9 | Because I can not distinguish one from the other it must be a physically identical statement to say that I have a particle " there " and an identical particle " here " . |
| 10 | Because I can not rely on my conscious memory of my own earliest moments , I can do little to remedy this omission . |
| 11 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 12 | But , because I can not accept the idea of total predestination , it has then to be the human being who either succeeds or fails . |
| 13 | I lost my friends because I can not see them now and they do n't have the money to come here . ’ |
| 14 | There must be a problem somewhere because I can not believe this young man wo n't make it , in the end . |
| 15 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 16 | Because I can not find a fucking man . |
| 17 | Here in the final work , the shaping of a total unity , there returns a crucial division , and because I can not read from it , even badly , I will not talk about it , which leaves intact your freedom to go and read it . |
| 18 | It is unwise for us to become close because I can not afford to entertain you in the style to which you are accustomed . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 20 | I am here because you can not manage without me , and I know it . ’ |
| 21 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 22 | And of course , when Jesus came and he healed the people and he spoke words of , of deliverance to those who are demon oppressed and he spoke words of that brought help to those who are blind and so on , there is of course , er , to the natural mind , a very natural explanation , it can all be explained away because you can not do these things ! |
| 23 | Increasing your bargaining power is not an end in itself but usually arises because you can not move sufficiently close to your opponent 's position to gain a settlement . |
| 24 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |
| 25 | POLICEWOMAN Pauline Tilley said afterwards on behalf of the grieving families : ‘ If the judge had given Gooch 100 years it would probably not be enough , because you can not bring the lives of five children back . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps because you can not hear yourself , can not see yourself . |
| 27 | ‘ You , ’ said the doctor , ‘ because you can not keep silent . |
| 28 | You either keep in the light where you can see , or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you , because you can not see and you think it 's an enemy . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 30 | which is to your detriment because you can not comply with it ; and |