Example sentences of "because [pron] is too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
| 2 | A GIRL of 11 has been taken away from school because she is too brainy . |
| 3 | LOLLIPOP lady Iris Pearce has been threatened with the sack — because she is too nice . |
| 4 | A GIRL cop has been banned from traffic duty because she is too sexy . |
| 5 | A subordinate might refuse to communicate openly with his superior , and might provide false information ; a colleague might refuse to cooperate ; a typist might refuse to type an urgent letter because she is too busy ; a worker might deliberately cause his machine to break down . |
| 6 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 7 | I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor . |
| 8 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 9 | STAINI RACK NUSVIODON Experiencing Staini Rack Nuul and then realizing that one must continue in the same outworn fashion because the alternatives are too frightening , or because one is too weak to change ; wearing a suit of clothes at which one sees strangers looking askance |
| 10 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 11 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 12 | Georg Breuer 's book does not mention those advances and that , I think , is because he is too concerned with the past . |
| 13 | COMPUTER expert Paddy Spooner has been banned from a country club 's quiz nights because he is too clever . |
| 14 | They did not snub him because he is too right-wing , but because his government has been incompetent . |
| 15 | Gradually his attitude changes , partly for the almost absurdly simple reason that the weather changes from uncomfortable cold to pleasant warmth and partly because he is too intelligent to be totally unaware that he is learning , whether he wants to or not . |
| 16 | SICK Belfast baby Caolan McDonald is to return home from hospital in England because he is too weak to undergo a transplant operation , his family said today . |
| 17 | A DARLINGTON man can not fulfil his life-long ambition to be a chauffeur because he is too young . |
| 18 | Mr de Klerk 's people say the Congress is dragging its feet because it is too disorganised to talk . |
| 19 | We can never give up our favourite music — no matter how awful we secretly understand it to be — because it is too close to us . |
| 20 | The other problem is that , while the UK coal industry is producing more than UK demand , the surplus it produces can not be sold economically to other buyers because it is too expensive to produce . |
| 21 | Sometimes the answer is hidden , either because it is too obvious for us to recognise or too complex to unravel . |
| 22 | If we have to criticize the Gesell studies because they were too unscientific , we will have to criticize the monumental National Child Development Study because it is too scientific . |
| 23 | This level of communication can not do much to enhance a relationship because it is too noncommittal . |
| 24 | It must be understood that we can separate the operations data from maintenance data but it is impossible to separate the knowledge ( operations from maintenance ) mainly because it is too closely inter-related . |
| 25 | In the first instance the picture of God is at fault because it is all wrong , and in the second because it is too small . |
| 26 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 27 | BBC chiefs may cut parts of a chat between actress Brigitte Nielsen and Terry Wogan because it is too raunchy for TV . |
| 28 | In the Dodds case the House of Lords stated that if the month in which the period expires has no corresponding date because it is too short , the period given by the notice ends on the last day of that month , ie 28 February or 29 February in a leap year . |
| 29 | If a point is missed because it is too deeply embedded in its cultural setting in one place , it stands out prominently and unequivocally in another . |
| 30 | NEARLY two out of five video owners find it difficult to programme their machines for recording because it is too complicated , says a Mintel market research report . |