Example sentences of "[coord] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't better because someone says it 's better , or because there 's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords . |
| 2 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 3 | Most youngsters probably start simply from curiosity , or because their friends are doing it . |
| 4 | I would therefore advise against taking any kind of drugs , not just because it is unsporting , or because of the threat of severe penalties on discovery , but also because of the adverse effects any drug regime has on the mind and body . |
| 5 | Either from choice or because they can not find employment , people are retiring earlier . |
| 6 | But the beloved was unattainable either because she belonged to another or because , like his muse , she forever eluded him as she was only a figment of his imagination . |
| 7 | Probably due to the newness of our sample , this proved quite difficult to do , but by the end of the test it was getting easier , either because the sleeve was wearing in , or because we were developing the knack — you must push the sleeve right back . |
| 8 | In some early drafts Raskolnikov commits suicide , and the striking thing here is that it 's never suggested he does so out of remorse or because he thinks he 's going to get caught or even from some vaguer , larger self-loathing . |
| 9 | If a boy is born ‘ breech ’ , or bottom first , for instance , he may later believe that he does things the wrong way round ; or because such births are painful for the mothers , he may decide that he hurts women . |
| 10 | Those who do might also be thought to be insincere , but some policemen showed real regret and disappointment when they were unable to provide the service they felt they should , whether because of the nature of the call or because of unrealistic public expectations ( such as finding lost budgies , preventing sheep-worrying , or reconciling warring spouses and quarrelsome neighbours ) . |
| 11 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |
| 12 | One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him . |
| 13 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 14 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 15 | This work surprisingly shows that leisure time actually diminishes as productive technology advances ; whether this is because of population increases or because of the rise of an exploitative class is not clear . |
| 16 | Sometimes it has to be abandoned for convenience or because of a changed lifestyle . |
| 17 | East African Asians told me that West Indians sometimes behave as though they are superior to Asians , because Asians are religious or because Asians ca n't speak English well . |
| 18 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 19 | These abnormalities arise either because there is an abnormality in some aspect of the timing system itself or because modern society has made demands upon us that have outstripped our biological evolution . |
| 20 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 21 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 22 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 23 | If the growth of debt continues to slow , either because banks grow more cautious or because borrowed money can not be paid back and has to be written off , this will send share prices lower . |
| 24 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 25 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 26 | Efficiency sounds like a strong claim , but actually it is pretty weak : all it means is that current information is available to everyone , either because they know about it or because enough people do , so that it is fully represented in the price . |
| 27 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 28 | Be on the look-out when ordinary people are despised because they do n't speak the way you do , or because they come from the council estate . |
| 29 | When Dot began to cry she was n't sure if it was because of thinking about poor Mr Brown 's two missing fingers or because she could n't remember what her father 's face looked like , or merely because of the alarming new orders about train departures cackling from the loudspeakers . |
| 30 | In practice when items of archaeological information , such as the date of the sculpture and its style , are taken into account , we can eliminate some quarries because they are not operational at that date or because we know the sculptors were working in certain places and it is highly improbable that they were using distant rather than local sources . |