Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [be] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm convinced that the main reason The Cowboy Junkies are popular is because of their name . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 3 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 4 | And the only reason that they were undamaged was because he had n't made up his mind whether simply to destroy them , his original intention , or whether to try to sell the designs to someone else . |
| 5 | These are both rather ominous examples of hidden agendas , because the reason for being secretive is because the real motive is essentially manipulative . |
| 6 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 7 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 8 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |
| 9 | But the only place I 'm gon na put you in , that 's that 's because I think your style and personality will fit there . |
| 10 | The reason it is funny is because a person could not be a mile high . |
| 11 | The reason it 's warm is because of all that warm blood that 's leaked into it . |
| 12 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |
| 13 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 14 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 15 | The difficulty which many people have in seeing this where religion is concerned is because of an either/or mentality . |
| 16 | The reason that is disappearing is because they have n't got a purpose to get out of bed in the morning , exactly . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 18 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |