Example sentences of "perhaps because [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |
| 2 | Some people are very mistrustful of machines , perhaps because they have had bad experiences with them and are therefore nervous about using them . |
| 3 | In some years a committee chair and his or her chief officer win a particularly favourable share of the pie , perhaps because they have a popular or long-delayed major scheme to launch . |
| 4 | However we do n't always acknowledge them in ourselves , perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience . |
| 5 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |
| 6 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 7 | ‘ People call me Moma Parsheen , perhaps because I have no children except for … ’ she stroked the cat creature . |
| 8 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |