Example sentences of "because like " in BNC.
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| 1 | have the boiler serviced annually , because like a car it will become less efficient at using fuel after prolonged use . |
| 2 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 3 | Unpredictable escape patterns of this kind have been called ‘ protean ’ defence systems because like the figure of Proteus in ancient Greek mythology they repeatedly change their shape . |
| 4 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 5 | There is the fellow who is idle from weakness , born idle as we say , a lazy character , and there is the idle man whose idleness imprisons and tortures him , because like a caged bird he longs to fly . |
| 6 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |
| 7 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | And this is fortunate , because like most speakers , I find some dictionary definitions remote from my own usage . |
| 9 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 10 | Not maybe because like the women have er got young families , they 're having to look after the families , maybe , on a Saturday afternoon while their husband goes away . |
| 11 | I 'm going to put these in some because like Anna says you know if you flowers you have more impact with them . |
| 12 | While the researcher might well need to make some of his own , standard equipment would be bought — partly for convenience , and partly because like the balance it would be more accurate for quantitative work then anything home-made . |
| 13 | Its format has changed over that time , quite a bit , because like any quality system , it 's subject to constant review . |
| 14 | As he ducks he has Des diving for his legs and me closing in , and this is the moment we all discover the benefits of my upbringing because like a promising cadet I 'd left the pistol 's safety on . |
| 15 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 16 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 17 | Yeah but it 's like it gets me because like Jane Jane gets asked they only ask her every Saturday . |
| 18 | It 's boring over there though because like it gets pretty boring ! |
| 19 | but er , they 've got to get a new mini bus apparently , there in two years , which we new and er because like every thing else , it 's funded by the school not the authorities |
| 20 | yes , well you know actually you say that because like here I , I do , I mean I , I got all these |
| 21 | Because like the ones down there , they 've got like , |
| 22 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |