Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
| 2 | Reports from Finland , Norway , and USA suggest that the declining incidence of gastric carcinomas is mainly because of a marked decrease in tumours of intestinal type . |
| 3 | The comparative infrequency of colonic carcinoma that we have found compared with other studies is probably because of the differences in the age distribution of the populations studied . |
| 4 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 5 | ( Until the landing of Apollo 16 in a highland plains area it was thought that the lunar highland plains might be of lava origin , but the discovery of copious quantities of brecchia indicates that the fairly level surface and the lower crater density than the surrounding highlands is probably because of an abundant fall of ejecta . ) |