Example sentences of "because they [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can laugh because they 're the only people in Romania who can go where they want . |
| 2 | I said , I know because they 're The Sensational Alex Harvey Band . |
| 3 | Er similarly in I' think it 's Japanese you find that men and women use different for certain things , er not because not because of terms of style just because they are the correct words to use if you are a man or if you are a women . |
| 4 | ‘ It is safer to make comedies , ’ explained Ken Annakin in 1958 , ‘ because they are the only pictures which , in Britain , bring back any profit at all to the people who put up the money . ’ |
| 5 | I certainly sell more red lentils than any other dried pulse , probably because they are the only variety that does not require soaking before cooking and are therefore the most convenient . |
| 6 | I have dealt at length with these tedious and superficially unimportant details because they are the only area of activity in Anselm 's years as archbishop in which a clear , persistent , and deeply felt course of action — such as can properly be described as a ‘ policy ’ — can be detected ; and if we are to understand his mind , we must understand the importance which he attached to this issue . |
| 7 | They also need careful attention because they are the only cases brought by business clients in which the client 's objective was not unequivocally adopted by the lawyer . |
| 8 | Although these are highly political words , we use them because they are the only available ones : conceptually the area of gender-differentiation in sociology is very poorly developed . |
| 9 | Johnson 's commentary upon this tale airs his willingness to take in everything and give it back out again : ‘ Narrations like this , however uncertain , deserve the notice of the traveller , because they are the only records of a nation that has no historians , and afford the most genuine representation of the life and character of the ancient Highlanders . ’ |
| 10 | I use Mesozoic brachiopod examples because they are the only ones I can believe in wholeheartedly from my own work . |
| 11 | ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money . |
| 12 | I have given the above observations explicitly because they are the necessary foundations for later investigation and many people have trouble observing them , even though others find them obvious . |
| 13 | If only because they are the sole member of their order , the Dermoptera , which means ‘ skin-winged ’ , the colugos must take pride of place . |
| 14 | I have dealt at some length with the arrangements for mandatory support because they have been in the limelight recently and because they are the direct responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 15 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 16 | Romanians called pigs ' trotters ‘ patriots ’ because they were the only bits of the pig allowed to remain in the country . |
| 17 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 18 | Perhaps because they were the only people able to afford the fees . |
| 19 | yeah because they were the only one who would |
| 20 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |