Example sentences of "[is] because [pron] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I want children to become philosophers in RE it is because they are already incipient philosophers , as for example Gareth Matthews ( 1980 ) has persuasively argued . |
| 2 | This is because they are fundamentally ‘ you and me ’ poems , and any You or any Me can be substituted for the personae . |
| 3 | I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired . |
| 4 | Some gay people molest children , just as some heterosexual people do , but this is because they are emotionally and psychosexually damaged , whatever their sexual orientation . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes this is because they are actually taken for granted . |
| 6 | I have not noted any particular problems with C cells ; this is because they are usually installed side by side , rather than one above the other . |
| 7 | The reason why party political broadcasts , however clever and imaginative , rarely have a great impact is because they are still essentially advertising , and people know it . |
| 8 | Although some yield mutants less readily in the laboratory than does E. coli , this is because they are better equipped to repair mutations . |
| 9 | This is because they are comparatively near to us . |
| 10 | This is because they are often deformed , either pointing backwards or shaped like those of a goat , or goose . |
| 11 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 12 | Erm it is because they are so acute , the least little whiff and they 're away . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is because we are so aware of the unsatisfactory nature of so much of contemporary church life that we are so reluctant to define our evangelistic goal in terms of disciples made . |
| 14 | This is because we are still waiting for the connecting bus from Wolverhampton … ‘ ! |
| 15 | Well I do n't think it is because you 're again you 're back to the line that everyone is bullying and I do n't believe that everyone is bullying . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 17 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 18 | This is because there are only a small number of directly relevant empirical studies , and it is hoped that the results from studies of other futures contracts will shed light on the nature of these relationships for index futures . |
| 19 | This is because there are relatively few of them and their services are in increasing demand . |
| 20 | This is because there are so many domes and the lantern of each is pierced with windows . |
| 21 | This is because there are undoubtedly some people who are out of work and seeking jobs , but are not claiming any form of social security benefit : such people are not counted in the official statistics . |
| 22 | Probably the chief reason why it is not better is because there are far too many performances . |
| 23 | Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way . |
| 24 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's because you 're just stupid , ’ said Sam . |
| 26 | That 's because you 're always working and you do n't have a chance . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's because you 're absolutely stinko , Dudley . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That 's because you 're never still . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's because you 're so much like him . ’ |
| 30 | IF THIS sounds like the voice of a woman from Mars , it 's because I 'm just back from holiday . |