Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] because [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ , I seem to be saying where I am only because there is another use of ‘ Here ’ , as for example in answer to ‘ Where 's the thimble ? ’ , in which I am saying where something is . |
| 2 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 3 | It 's basically because there is a chronic shortage of housing in all sectors , and in particular obviously we are concerned with people who erm are on relatively low incomes and who are quite unable to become owner occupiers . |
| 4 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 5 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
| 6 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 7 | It is precisely because there is no direct correlation of such a kind between genetic make-up and culture that we can afford to ignore race as a significant variable in our discussion of different social and cultural arrangements . |
| 8 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |
| 9 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 10 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 11 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 12 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 13 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 14 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 15 | Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ] |
| 16 | If certain aspects of Vincent 's personality repel us , it is perhaps because he is never full face . |