Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be because [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that it is because the church has neglected , in almost every generation , to create a true fellowship in Christ that we are faced with modern freemasonry or , more recently , acid house or the New Age groups . |
| 2 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 3 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 4 | After the election Mr Bryan Gould , when asked why he thought Labour had lost , replied that it was because the electorate was too ‘ conservative ’ . |
| 5 | I asked the Corporal why he had saluted and he explained that it was because the Legion was the senior arm of the French Armed Forces . |
| 6 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 7 | Huy knew that it was because the policeman could trust him only so far after his confession . |
| 8 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |