Example sentences of "because he be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not compared with Ricky , ’ snapped Perdita , ‘ and they all think Drew 's absolutely marvellous , because he 's an eight and a Falklands hero and all . |
| 3 | And I said , ‘ I do n't believe Mr Zanuck said that because he 's an honourable man . |
| 4 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean that the only reason I keep your brother on is because he 's an absolute wizard with engines . ’ |
| 6 | And that 's fitting because he 's an RAF Tornado pilot . |
| 7 | Probably because he 's an author or she 's an author . |
| 8 | And , speaking of England : ‘ I am surpised that Neil Back has been omitted from the squad because he is an outstanding player . |
| 9 | We can understand what Oakeshott meant when he stated that ‘ Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian ’ . |
| 10 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 11 | If Teddy is watching I do n't care , because he is an intruder and more pitiful for that . |
| 12 | He then goes on to say that he would like the plebeians to believe him because he is an honourable man , they respect him and to remember his honourable reputation so that they are more ready to believe him . |
| 13 | He does this by saying things like , ‘ But Brutus says he was ambitious , And Brutus is an honourable man ’ He is saying very sarcastically that Brutus is always right because he is an honourable man . |
| 14 | Especially in the Belfast area , people would work for him , not because he was an evangelical who denounced apostasy and promoted sabbatarianism and temperance , but because he was a strong loyalist who articulated their suspicions that the leaders of the Unionist Party — ‘ the fur coat brigade ’ — were rather more interested in looking after themselves than they were in protecting working-class Protestants . |
| 15 | Here the LEA had argued that a child ( J ) with dyslexia did not have special educational needs requiring special educational provision for the purposes of the 1981 Act , because he was an intelligent child whose needs could be provided for in an ordinary school . |
| 16 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 17 | Moreover , he was not one to turn an able man down because he was an ideological waif — but that is another story . |
| 18 | Who would n't join a Marxist reading group because he was an antiquated masculist , who could n't recognise the glory of women in struggle ? ’ |
| 19 | The way Matthew treats the Marcan source does not suggest that he knew more about the events concerned because he was an Apostle . |
| 20 | Last night , film director Michael Winner said : ‘ When I heard he was ill my first thought was of AIDS because he was an active bisexual . |
| 21 | I duly notified ‘ the appropriate authorities ’ , and they replied that they could not prevent him from going because he was an English subject . |
| 22 | He was called Bond ( James ) because he was an undercover agent : he adored sleeping under things — cushions , pillows , piles of old newspapers . |
| 23 | Most people probably noticed nothing , but Amis , perhaps because he was an outsider , could feel it like a pulse . |
| 24 | Someone laughed in the graveyard because he was an old , old man who died and no one weeps much for the old . |
| 25 | I enjoyed teaching Bauer , because he was an intelligent pupil , because there was a gentle air about him , and because he was very kind to my parents . |
| 26 | Wh when he went into erm , when he went into Strasbourg with the garrison , he was very well received , because he was an officer , he was a gentleman , he was a musician , he was a composer , and he became very friendly with the Mayor of Strasbourg , whose name was Dietrich a very German sounding name , but do n't forget that Strasbourg is very near to the German border . |