Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be because [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 2 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 3 | Alternatively it may have been because a rising number of night visits , increasingly performed before 1990 by deputies , increases health service expenditure as the cost of deputies is eventually reimbursed in the expense element of general practitioner remuneration . |
| 4 | In part this may have been because the trend towards larger-scale workplaces meant children were less likely to see them working ; but there is also evidence of the now growing pressure to retire . |
| 5 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 6 | Last September Mrs McIvor reported that complaints had dropped by 25pc , but that the reduction may have been because the public is not fully aware of her work . |
| 7 | It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief . |