Example sentences of "[be] because we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 2 | It is , however , not all that we are because we know that we also have feelings and emotions . |
| 3 | But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won . |
| 4 | We had to be because we had lost our real families |
| 5 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 6 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 7 | It has to be because we have to get our hands in . |
| 8 | This may be because we have lost sight of what education is about , or , at best , because we disagree on the aims and objectives of education . |
| 9 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
| 10 | But if it is a hung parliament , this will be because we do n't really want anyone to have any power . |
| 11 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 12 | Thus , we will not be able to predict what the apparent values of these quantities will be because we do n't know how many baby universes are waiting out there . |
| 13 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 14 | Christians usually think that they have nothing to learn from other religions , but that is because we confuse beliefs and practices . |
| 15 | It is because we know the real essences of geometrical figures that that subject consists of ‘ certain and universal knowledge ’ obtained by a priori intuition or demonstration . |
| 16 | That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years . |
| 17 | Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough . |
| 18 | Perhaps may it is because we 've got all these trees I mean |
| 19 | Yes , I do agree , Bill , and I think another reason why we 're more aware of it now is because we 've had unfortunately so many disasters in the last oh five/six years and we 're increasingly coming to realize that children do also suffer quite severely from post-trauma stress . |
| 20 | This is because we try to move our eyes along the name , whereas the sign itself remains still . |
| 21 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 22 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 23 | Terence Conran once said to me : ‘ the reason why you and I do things well is because we had our apprenticeship in restaurants , ’ and I actually think that 's a very valid point , because you 've got twenty planks to the one function of actually serving food . |
| 24 | As Charles observes : ‘ If you want an insight into why Diana is not just some sort of spoilt toff it is because we had very contrasting lifestyles . |
| 25 | This is because we hope to establish an informality that we feel will be suitable here , even if it might be inappropriate in degree coursework , in a PhD thesis or in a research monograph . |
| 26 | They think it is because we got no sense . |
| 27 | Erm , and it turns out they 're all from T G I and it is because we got Richard as manager . |
| 28 | It is because we wish to strengthen the Government 's hand against a fairly well organised industry which seeks universal general increases that we make a series of recommendations in the report , to which I shall come in a moment . |
| 29 | This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as " We see the universe the way it is because we exist . " |
| 30 | This is because we need to justify our action , though its real basis is salus populi suprema lex . ’ |