Example sentences of "[is] because [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots .
2 This is because they have only won three matches in a World Cup proper .
3 If they have since discovered that this contact can be fulfilling and life-enhancing — and this is certainly not always the case — it is because they have benefited from the broader range of experiences which this contact has offered .
4 If maintained schools failed ( and fail ) to scale those commanding heights it is because they have not wished to .
5 If they are mentioned , it is because they have been recommended and are generally regarded as good courses .
6 The reason , in my opinion , why many artists call pastel application ‘ painting ’ is because they have some sort of complex when comparing their art to that of the oil painter , which is wrong .
7 This is because they have not yet learned the new rules and are still trying old techniques of gaining reactions from their parents .
8 So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully .
9 To say that human beings from time to time have sexual intercourse , and that this is because they have sexual instincts , is as circular as the argument about hunger .
10 This is because they have been processed automatically ; but if our attention is on our own thoughts rather than the author 's , then comprehension will fail .
11 Ironically , one reason why so many antiracist initiatives have failed is because they have assumed some kind of transitive relation between policy and practice .
12 In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress .
13 He said : ’ When I say that the Government are not positive , that is because they have sought no undertakings on regional policy , growth policy or employment policy . ’
14 Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure .
15 It is because they have already been widely written about in feminist art history ?
16 The reason is because they have agreed to be bound by it .
17 The reason that is disappearing is because they have n't got a purpose to get out of bed in the morning , exactly .
18 That is because we 've given them good service over the past three years .
19 Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough .
20 Perhaps may it is because we 've got all these trees I mean
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 For some of us it is because we have suffered from the emotional manipulations of others .
25 This is because we have fairly strong evidence from ancient Egyptian art , showing that cats had been taken under human control by that period .
26 I think this is because we have our own distinct identity and proper base .
27 True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient .
28 Yes , and that is because we have an approved structure plan which indicates the general extent of the greenbelt , and we 're not talking here about an inner boundary or an outer boundary , we 're concerned with a pre-standing settlement .
29 The other reason why women should organise and educate separately is because we have more important work to do than to have our attention and energy continually claimed by men .
30 The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control .
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