Example sentences of "is probably because [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably because small birds need less food , ( Condition refers to stored energy , in the form of fat deposits ; Petrie used a complicated measure of condition to get rid of the effects of size alone . |
| 2 | If strong stemming does not seem to introduce too much noise in reference retrieval searching this is probably because typical searches include , explicitly or implicitly , at least three words and often more . |
| 3 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 4 | The previous report of copper concentrations in gastric juice represents a fivefold overestimate : we found low concentrations only ( mean=1.2 n> M and this is probably because most plasma copper ( ca 80–90% is tightly bound to the plasma protein caeruloplasmin . |
| 5 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |