Example sentences of "because [pron] happen to be " in BNC.

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1 Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls .
2 I was confusing those regulations with some others , because I happened to be dealing with the lack of adequate time for the disability working regulations .
3 ‘ And may I ask if she will be so delighted to see me because I happen to be a male member of the human race … ? ’
4 ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’
5 ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying .
6 However , if I am a regular customer and the stall owner gives me credit because I happen to be short of cash , I do have an obligation to come back .
7 I 'm keen to make my mark on my own merits , not because I happen to be the chairman 's daughter ! ’
8 He was glad that Henry had n't waived the charge altogether ; you would n't expect an electrician to rewire your house for free , just because you happened to be acquainted .
9 ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward .
10 ‘ Think you 're so bloody superior just because you happen to be straight ! ’
11 But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop .
12 And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ?
13 So we were popular , and courted popularity , because we happened to be the sort of person society preferred , neotenic , forever in the larval stage .
14 ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra .
15 But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’
16 And I 'm trying to get it through your arrogant skull that I 'm not in the market for a casual roll in the hay just because we happen to be sharing a villa for a few days ! ’
17 The central problem would seem to be market vagaries ; old people should not be denied the services which they need to survive in the community because there happens to be a shortage in a given locality , or because certain areas are not profitable , or because some old people are less congenial than others .
18 Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ?
19 For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name .
20 Young children may lay claim to possession just because they happen to be playing with , say , a car or doll .
21 Why should they be financially penalized because they happen to be sick or disabled ?
22 In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties .
23 One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something .
24 ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post .
25 ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’
26 The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being .
27 ‘ I imagine you employed him , ’ she rebuked him tightly , ‘ because he happens to be a first-class mechanic . ’
28 He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name .
29 As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment .
30 Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law .
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