Example sentences of "because [pers pn] fear " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 2 | ‘ It frightens the life out of me because I fear I 'll never work again . |
| 3 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 4 | Maybe I was too young because I fear I was not an assiduous student . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you had better be prepared for disruption , because I fear she could be here permanently . ’ |
| 6 | We can feel anger , even rage , at our position but can not express our feelings because we fear we will not be accepted ; we will be further rejected . |
| 7 | This can make us fiercely independent and afraid to ask for what we need because we fear it will not be given . |
| 8 | Without fear , we would be at a disadvantage ; but , because we fear ‘ Fear ’ , it becomes our master and stops us doing the very thing for which it has prepared us . |
| 9 | We do this because we fear that the other language may not contain the sophisticated concepts we may need in the communication . |
| 10 | Should we tamper with majority rule by giving special voting strength to one economic group , beyond what its numbers would justify , because we fear that straight majority rule would assign it less than its just share ? |
| 11 | GOVERNORS at two linked comprehensive schools in Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire , have voted unanimously to seek opting-out status because they fear moves to introduce selection and impose grammar schools . |
| 12 | Even in countries with laws that provide some degree of protection for marine mammals , fishermen are often reluctant to report incidental catches of dolphins or porpoises because they fear having restrictions placed on their use of set-nets . |
| 13 | They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news . |
| 14 | Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies . |
| 15 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 16 | But the Scottish Development Agency says manufacturers are reluctant to enter this activity because they fear it will be too complex for them to manage . |
| 17 | Although homoeopathy is appealing to the lay practitioner , and the number of lay colleges is increasing rapidly in this country at the present time , such developments are viewed askance by some of the medically qualified practitioners mainly because they fear that lay homoeopaths will not possess an adequate grasp of basic medical principles — a fear reflected in the recent BMA report on alternative medicine . |
| 18 | The poor have children because they fear sickness , old age , unemployment . |
| 19 | They discovered that , like tourists in a foreign country , deaf people may smile and appear to understand because they fear looking stupid . |
| 20 | The unions are already holding a strike ballot because they fear compulsory redundancies . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of prisoners would never dream of reading one of Shakespeare 's plays because they fear being out of their depth . |
| 22 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 23 | However , states are often under pressure to act because they fear history will turn against them if they do not . |
| 24 | But Conservatives in the ruling coalition dislike the idea because they fear losses at the polls next year to the far-right Republicans . |
| 25 | Some of Mr Kravchuk 's advisers are exploiting his vanity , perhaps because they fear that Mr Kuchma 's reforms will put an end to the opportunities for easy profits offered by the current chaos in the economy . |
| 26 | This is partly because they fear women in such positions simply get incorporated into the structures as they exist , and merely reproduce the same decisions as the dominant male group . |
| 27 | We all know people who want trade union protection , but dare not join because they fear victimization . |
| 28 | Villagers in Bendel State hide their television and radio sets on treetops because they fear that radioactivity will be transmitted via the electronic media . |
| 29 | I have here a petition with about 22,000 signatures , principally of visitors and the staff of the royal parks who are concerned about the proposed privatisation of those parks because they fear a consequent fall from the high standards established in them . |
| 30 | Some have armies and weapons because they fear that , come a war , they would need protection and defences . |