Example sentences of "be because we " in BNC.

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1 The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go .
2 It is , however , not all that we are because we know that we also have feelings and emotions .
3 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
4 ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show !
5 But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won .
6 By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it .
7 But if it is a hung parliament , this will be because we do n't really want anyone to have any power .
8 I 'm never late for things , I try really hard to be late , but I just ca n't be because we were told off so much about it .
9 The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another .
10 Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ .
11 It has to be because we have to get our hands in .
12 yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a
13 Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’
14 This may be because we have lost sight of what education is about , or , at best , because we disagree on the aims and objectives of education .
15 Thus , we will not be able to predict what the apparent values of these quantities will be because we do n't know how many baby universes are waiting out there .
16 It 's quite hard work for some of us to take this seriously , but that may be because we are not very good at loving ourselves or trusting life .
17 But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ?
18 The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale
19 yeah , erm I would take a guess that there will be because we still have ambitions to shed a load of space so it would be advisable to re-fit to release further space we have another twenty six smaller stores that we have n't done at all yet other than put a so yes we 'll have an on-going re-fit programme I ca n't give you the exact details because erm how many it 's gon na be but there will be certainly an on-going re-fit programme .
20 And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for .
21 We had to be because we had lost our real families
22 Mind you there again it 's cheaper than it should be because we 're paying it on VAT , you know , it , er , they must think we 're fools
23 Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine .
24 It is because we internally use our visual information and our sound information in different ways and for different purposes that the sensations of seeing and hearing are so different .
25 This is because we can read only of anti-religious work as described in party documents and , from 1925 onwards , in the reports of the local League of the Godless .
26 This is because we need to justify our action , though its real basis is salus populi suprema lex . ’
27 Terence Conran once said to me : ‘ the reason why you and I do things well is because we had our apprenticeship in restaurants , ’ and I actually think that 's a very valid point , because you 've got twenty planks to the one function of actually serving food .
28 It is because we know the real essences of geometrical figures that that subject consists of ‘ certain and universal knowledge ’ obtained by a priori intuition or demonstration .
29 This is because we are concerned with the ways genes come together in groups , and then separate again .
30 It is because we need to understand that we have asked you to come here tonight .
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