Example sentences of "because [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think it could have been a White-tipped shark , because nothing else has the aggression to come forward and attack the boat . |
| 2 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 3 | ‘ But do n't fed any sense of anticlimax , because everyone here wants to meet you , and all sorts of parties are being arranged , and several people are going to be calling you in the morning . ’ |
| 4 | I say in particular our union because everyone here knows we probably have the largest and best training programme of any other union in Britain today . |
| 5 | Given scant information , one is expected to accept their procedures without question , and then pay inflated bills because everyone else does . |
| 6 | Is it just for the sake of appearances because everyone else does ? |
| 7 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 8 | If it looks and feels good they should n't drastically change their hair just because everyone else has . |
| 9 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 10 | Because somebody else has took over . |
| 11 | The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares . |
| 12 | Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn . |
| 13 | I also think that we must be the place where programmes get made because nobody else wants to make them , nobody else would make them . |
| 14 | Welcome back : Coming up , the hotelier who 's had to hire French staff because nobody here wants the work . |
| 15 | Just because nobody actually wants to use a drug that hops around on two legs , croaking , it does n't mean that you ca n't get nicked for it . |
| 16 | and they do n't normally give to anywhere , because nobody ever asks . |
| 17 | I heard Rachel — you know , that miseryguts with a face like a reflection in a spoon — saying that they reckoned Hambury was all right because nobody ever complains . |
| 18 | The Princess of Wales survives attacks because she is glamorous , lovable , a devoted mother of her two boys , because children adore her and she has a natural affinity with them , and because she bravely enters fields which command respect ( shaking hands with AIDS victims for example ) . |
| 19 | Do what you like , but she 'll remain mine , because she already knows she 's mine . ’ |
| 20 | Smacking does n't work , either , because she just learns that you 'll hurt her if you catch her doing it again . |
| 21 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps because she now has a set of causes to attach to the peculiar incidents of the past several days , from her inexplicably word-perfect rendition of an Aramaic drinking song to the appearance of demonic names on the optician 's chart . |
| 23 | Yet , in extract ( 13 ) we can only reconstruct the intended meaning of C's third question because she actually explains her intended meaning later . |
| 24 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 25 | And it does n't , because she suddenly rushes off , and I have to run after her , shouting about when am I going to see her again , and jumping out of people 's way into the gutter . ’ |
| 26 | I wonder if erm Shirley 's sister 's working because she often meets her nieces yes her nieces from school and she has her nephew with her , you know , Judith 's . |
| 27 | Well because she periodically brings the bird seed for the the bird on the ward . |
| 28 | Because she always goes quiet . |
| 29 | Rildia Bee is easy to spot from any distance because she always wears floor-length dresses of silk brocade and a mink stole — which , air-conditioning or otherwise , is not necessarily the obvious choice of outfit in Fort Worth . |
| 30 | Mum never has more than £10.00 in her purse because she always pays for everything by cheque , |