Example sentences of "[be] because the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 2 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 3 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 4 | If the representative assembly in such a system finds it difficult to hold the administration accountable , this may be because the collective political leadership of the administration finds it convenient to restrict legislative scrutiny and control . |
| 5 | This might be because the latter category of temporary worker is less subject to union control than the former and might thus be seen by unions as a greater " threat " whose use is to be resisted . |
| 6 | Would that be because the Communist Party did n't want the rich peasant to think they 'd be s they were being singled out ? |
| 7 | If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ . |
| 8 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 9 | The fact that Gardner et al found a dose-response relation between fathers ' preconceptual external exposure to penetrating ionising radiation and childhood leukaemia and we did not could be because the cumulative dose was a marker of exposure to some hazardous substance or substances at Sellafield but not elsewhere . |
| 10 | For older people just over half the refusals for grants are reported to be because the basic criteria are not satisfied . |
| 11 | This may be because the British competitors were pathetically talent-impaired . |
| 12 | This may be because these goals have changed , but it may equally be because the social world for which the original policies were designed has changed . |
| 13 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 14 | The idea of groining a beach is that along the Sussex coast the beach material is moving from west to east , this is because the prevailing winds drive the gravel erm onto the beach from the southwest , and it moves in that direction all the time . |
| 15 | This is because the explicit tax rate and the means-tested benefit withdrawal rate exceeds unity . |
| 16 | It is because the rich in this city are in a club news travels fast between families . |
| 17 | When these are violated in his painting , it is because the pictorial theory involved conflicted with his intensely visual and empirical approach , and with his desire to reconstruct the three-dimensional form of his subjects as fully as possible . |
| 18 | This is because the adjacent peat , as it is drained and dried out , wastes away by a process of oxidation on exposure to the atmosphere . |
| 19 | It is because the individual animal is the unit of study that this is a cluster sample ; if herds were the unit of study we would simply have a simple random sample of herds . |
| 20 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 21 | In part this is because the 26 variables aggregate several different dimensions of discrimination against women ; a factor analysis identified ten significant factors , which ‘ vividly demonstrates a lack of consistency among the states in support of women 's legal rights ’ ( p. 192 ) . |
| 22 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 23 | And it is because the new humanity is made up of free men and women that God wishes that all should be saved : his delay in invading the world and bringing an end to history is to allow time for the new humanity to supplant the old . |
| 24 | This is because the oestrous periods of harem females tend to occur bunched together in time . |
| 25 | Although product X is ranked before product Y the optimum mix only includes the manufacture of 1,000 units of X , this is because the minimum quantity of Y that must be sold is 800 units . |
| 26 | This is because the additional semantic traits normally carried by mare are already inferable from the rest of the sentence , and are to that degree superfluous . |
| 27 | This is because the usual practice would be for the investment manager to deal only in its own name account client . |
| 28 | This is because the key factor in their diet is the amount of seafood they eat daily . |
| 29 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to get beyond the hype and because I suspect the real reason behind the criticisms of the leader of the opposition is because the chief executive did n't invite him on one or two of these trips , because |
| 30 | This is because the smallest changes in one place can have dramatic ‘ knock-on ’ effects elsewhere . |