Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the groups came together it was because in the fiction the Argonauts were landing and desperately needed food and shelter — which the younger children enormously enjoyed providing . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because in isolation human beings achieve their true status ; they are no longer tied to an economic process which dominates their existence . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was because of the weather . |
| 6 | Perhaps , perhaps , perhaps it was because of that we did n't have it , and the treasurer and the secretary are officially erm , and we do have constitution do n't we now of course , so we can look at the constitution and see what it says |
| 7 | Perhaps it was because of his father . |
| 8 | perhaps it was because of the situation . |
| 9 | Probably it was because of what had happened in the play at that point on the previous night . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , Taggy , you know well it is because of her that he had nothing . |
| 11 | Presumably it is because of the link between standing up in this way and the act of squeezing scent from the anal region that the posture has become associated with the firing of the anal glands by the defensive skunk . |
| 12 | I , I just do n't know what he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's seeing his future as being and erm maybe cos we have n't got , maybe erm it 's because of the generation gap , maybe it 's because of communication problems either between me and him or the young and old or whatever but , you know , he just does n't seem to have anything to volunteer er other than ah well I 'll try and get a job or ah well I 'll try and get some more qualifications or whatever . |
| 13 | Maybe it was because of the snow or maybe he was getting fed up with me . |
| 14 | If the state 's bureaucracies are apparently colonized by external interest groups or socially privileged external elites , then it is because of the decisions ( or non-decisions ) of the elected governing elite . |
| 15 | that out there it is because at the back of my shed , I want to do some I want to tidy that area up . |