Example sentences of "because [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The March Revolution was a spontaneous uprising because no-one had planned it ; it merely escalated from a seemingly harmless bread riot into a complete constitutional over-throw .
2 Even videos , a medium Madness exploited with hyper-active aplomb , did n't reap the rewards they could have done because no-one had invented MTV or The Chart Show .
3 The machine can completely fail to work because no-one has bothered to test it before the day .
4 Because nothing has changed !
5 The output states of both gates would be 0 ( because nothing has happened yet ) .
6 In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened .
7 Shall we go now , I think we 're very late because everyone 's gone in
8 If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ?
9 Erm , I intend to brief because A because everyone has got in front of them a very very thorough and I should n't think there are too many questions that people would want to ask .
10 I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society .
11 He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable .
12 Often you 'd hear somebody playing up , or you heard the screws zooming around because someone had cut up [ injured themselves ] .
13 When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment .
14 The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ?
15 They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message .
16 He also wore metal frame square glasses because someone had told him he looked tough in them .
17 Because someone had tried — very badly — to soundproof the room , all the walls were covered with cork tiles which stood proud from the wall behind .
18 Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts .
19 We had talked about the heart earlier in the morning , because someone had brought ‘ Topsy and Tim Go to Hospital ’ in for storytime .
20 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
21 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
22 All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined .
23 ‘ You ca n't ask me to leave just because someone has blackened my name — ’
24 I 've taken on all these issues because I believe in them and because someone has to do them .
25 It is rather disingenuous of the Minister to extrapolate the logic that , because someone has described a situation , that means that he necessarily agrees with it .
26 That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves .
27 I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets .
28 Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ .
29 But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days .
30 " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . "
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