Example sentences of "be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 2 | We covered this earlier and it may be because the coach feels that you are not capable of performing well under the pressure of an actual competition . |
| 3 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 4 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 5 | For older people just over half the refusals for grants are reported to be because the basic criteria are not satisfied . |
| 6 | If that class is sadly numerous today , it may be because of a common belief that ‘ British poetry has chosen to turn inwards , parochial , self-comforting and serviceable ’ . |
| 7 | But some commentators believe that it may also be because , unlike other cartel kingpins , Escobar and Rodriguez Gacha are social upstarts who have clawed their way out of the gutter . |
| 8 | If I decided to play in it , it would not be because of $50,000 but because I felt better . |
| 9 | This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis . |
| 10 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 11 | This might be because the people to whom they apply are encountered only infrequently in the course of police work . |
| 12 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 13 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 14 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 15 | This may be because the ‘ classic ’ factories of the twentieth century tend to be low-rise , usually single-storey structures , built to very broad plans from cheap and impermanent materials . |
| 16 | But LFF evidence tends to corroborate suggestions that this may be because such film-making is just not very good at the moment . |
| 17 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |
| 18 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |
| 19 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |
| 20 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
| 21 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 22 | This could be because Carlo ( left ) has made a career of clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ My father , puzzled for an instant as to the meaning of this accident , since Mrs Goodyer was the gentlest and most inoffensive of our Church members , decided that it must be because she had made an idol of her husband … ‘ |
| 24 | It could only be because they had something to hide . |
| 25 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |
| 26 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 27 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 28 | And all of this can only be because you are very wicked indeed . |
| 29 | This might be because they were estranged in some way before the person 's death or because they resent the person dying and leaving them to cope . |
| 30 | If Weismann is wrong , I think it will be because there are ways of transmitting information between generations other than via DNA . |