Example sentences of "because [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 3 | She can not move around because she is connected with the oxygen machine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | Pelops wins because he is given even swifter horses by his lover Poseidon ; Oenomaus 's death is barely alluded to ; Myrtilos not at all . |
| 14 | William is humiliated not because he is defeated ( he had half expected this ) but because of the shepherd boy 's refusal to go on hitting him . |
| 15 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 16 | SACHIN Tendulkar , Yorkshire 's first overseas signing , is likely to miss the first five matches of the season because he is contracted to play in Bombay . |
| 17 | The owner may contest the Repairs Notice because he is determined not to relinquish ownership . |
| 18 | The Profitboss succeeds because he is determined to turn failure into success . |
| 19 | The former England midfielder , who missed the 2-0 Coca-Cola Cup victory against Tottenham on Wednesday because he is Cup-tied , will face Leeds at Elland Road . |
| 20 | Zande say that a suicide takes his own life ‘ because he is bewitched ’ : ‘ witchcraft ’ killed him . |
| 21 | Thus a believer begins to ‘ keep God 's word ’ or ‘ walk as Christ walked ’ ( 2:5,6 ) : ‘ he does not go on sinning , because God 's seed remains in him , and he can not go on sinning , because he is born of God ’ ( 3:9 ) . |
| 22 | The operator may deviate from the listed procedure because it may require excessive moving about or because he is interrupted by the requirements of other tasks . |
| 23 | United left out Mark Hughes , because he is suspended against Honved , and switched Ryan Giggs to play up front with Eric Cantona . |
| 24 | A tenancy of a tied public house is not an office , and the tenant does not obtain the opportunity to earn remuneration in employment because he is paid by his own efforts , not by the brewery : McNiff [ 1986 ] Crim LR 57 ( CA ) . |
| 25 | Now he 's there it should almost be like a holiday because he is required only to do what he is good at — getting tight on the opposition and setting up England 's creative players . |
| 26 | Those who do love Frank ( and they are legion ) love him just because he is humiliated and embarrassed : they love him because he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 27 | MARK PLAATJES , the London Marathon favourite , who can not compete in Barcelona this summer because he is considered stateless , says he intends to make Sunday 's race his Olympics , writes Ken Mays . |
| 28 | JOSE Maria Olazabal has chosen to miss next month 's £1.7 million Johnnie Walker World Championship in sun-kissed Jamaica because he is exhausted . |
| 29 | And although the Newsons concede the chicken and egg possibility — do you smack a child because he is delinquent , or is he delinquent because he is smacked ? — they argue that their findings do not support the old belief that sparing the rod spoils the child , but suggest that at the very least , mothers who smack do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . |
| 30 | It differs from ordinary hammer drills ( which operate on a ratchet/percussion mechanism ) because it is operated by an electro-pneumatic mechanism . |