Example sentences of "because [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he is not actively developing a third party dealer network because no-one is making money out of simply shifting boxes any more , he did say that systems integrators or value-added resellers have more appeal as people still want computers . |
| 2 | There will be no pressure on him because everyone is picking Benn to win . ’ |
| 3 | At cocktail party noise level everyone has to shout simply because everyone is shouting . |
| 4 | They can suddenly escalate because someone is carrying a blade . ’ |
| 5 | And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ? |
| 6 | She submits , not because she is threatened with or fears immediate violence , but because she feels helpless to resist in a situation in which he is all-powerful and she is powerless . |
| 7 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 8 | She can not move around because she is connected with the oxygen machine . |
| 9 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 10 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 11 | The Lilac Fairy is generously slow and controlled and taps her forehead because she is bringing the gift of Wisdom ( the traditional gesture for wise ) . |
| 12 | You should never attempt to dominate her simply because she is living in your home , for when you invited her to come to live with you it became her home too — the only home she has now , and she must be allowed to remain her own woman . |
| 13 | An 85-year-old Wigan pensioner is now looked after by her daughter — the mother applied for a grant for the daughter , because she is immobilised by arthritis . |
| 14 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 15 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 16 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 17 | ‘ And is he dead , because she is crying so much ? ’ thought Melanie . |
| 18 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 19 | When she criticizes the inconstancy of women , it is not because she is overwhelmed by Pope 's influence , but because she has been , if not betrayed , at least disappointed in her friendships with other women . |
| 20 | Or : because she is torn between the possibility of embracing his scheme with a lover 's abandon , and the more conventional , and differently ( maliciously ) pleasurable option of destroying him by laughing , finally , after much foreplay , in his foolish supplicant face . |
| 21 | Is not it a fact that doctors and nurses in France were on strike recently , and that in Italy patients have to ask relatives to bring in food because none is provided by the hospitals ? |
| 22 | SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable . |
| 23 | These are supplies of services and standard-rated because something is done for a consideration and it is outside the zero rate and exempt groups , not being an interest in land ( Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 at p 615 ; Notice 742B , para 14 ) . |
| 24 | you ca n't sleep because something is bothering you |
| 25 | Because one is using Euclidean space-times , in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space , it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge . |
| 26 | Here are some sentences in which two consonant sounds are identical to look at but sound slightly different because one is voiced ( the vocal cords vibrate ) and the other is unvoiced . |
| 27 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 28 | On April 3 the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) led by Hocine Aït Ahmed announced that it would boycott the June elections , which it described as " a real farce because everything is done in accordance with FLN interests " . |
| 29 | A person who is constipated may also be incontinent of faeces because there is leaking around the hard mass . |
| 30 | Those things have to be good if you 're going to hold a World Cup because there is going to be a huge influx of tourists ’ , said Farr-Jones . |