Example sentences of "[adv] because the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting ( by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women ) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man 's dignity ? |
| 2 | If Venette attacked the soldiers , Page did not , perhaps because the man in charge of the operation was his own king who put the blame for the fate of the civilians firmly upon the shoulders of the French . |
| 3 | Perhaps because the company in which I have spent most of my industrial life is scientifically based , we have a passion for perfection . |
| 4 | It is perhaps because the element of the surreal which is more strongly emphasised here , conveys a livelier sense of discovery . |
| 5 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 6 | His correspondence concerning rowdiness ( a matter on which many people have written , especially since sound broadcasting of Parliament started ) had decreased , perhaps because the public were better able to appreciate the context in which noise arose . |
| 7 | I think this was perhaps because the kind of personality he had was not always willing to obey , he did not have a ‘ normal ’ psychology . |
| 8 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 9 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 10 | So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective . |
| 11 | For many years the Government offered an annual award of 10000 Belgian francs for research into sexually transmitted diseases , but even this has been discontinued , perhaps because the award always went to a foreigner . |
| 12 | During 1919 he painted a mother and child which took him more than forty sittings , perhaps because the subject was of such personal interest . |
| 13 | The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed . |
| 14 | The influence of these factors on British animal preferences are less obvious — despite a certain amount of overlap between the British and world lists — perhaps because the range of possible choices is far more limited . |
| 15 | There were problems in a few centres , perhaps because the idea of a closing date was new or perhaps because local computer systems caused delays . |
| 16 | There are also a disconcerting number of rustlings and clickings , perhaps because the recording is so close you can almost hear the stardust settling . |
| 17 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 18 | However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state . |
| 19 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
| 20 | This is perhaps because the infant 's relation with its mother is disturbed when the child begins to perceive its father as another figure in the family . |
| 21 | Perhaps because the tortoiseshell male was neither fully male nor fully female , it did not feel the need to compete in these single-sex pecking-order disputes . |
| 22 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 23 | The Law Game ( Radio 2 , Tuesday ) also has an audience response problem , perhaps because the format is tired ; after all , it is in its fourteenth series . |
| 24 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 25 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 26 | Sadly , the standards of consent actually achieved on the ward often fall short of those expected by lawyers , perhaps because the task of obtaining consent is left to more junior medical staff , who are themselves ignorant of many of the potential pitfalls that might face the patient . |
| 27 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 28 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 29 | A particular problem which is frequently overlooked ( perhaps because the distinction is not made explicit in the Partnership Act itself ) is the allocation of capital profits , ie the difference between the book values of partnership assets and their market value . |
| 30 | The sharpest judgments by listeners are made about local radio , perhaps because the audience identifies easily with a nearby station . |