Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise candidates which are acceptable may be rejected because they do not occur in the source , and alternatives which are not acceptable may be accepted because they appear in the source and provide a good fit , even though they are not characteristic of the material being processed . |
| 2 | Otherwise candidates which are acceptable may be rejected because they do not occur in the source , and alternatives which are not acceptable may be accepted because they appear in the source and provide a good fit , even though they are not characteristic of the material being processed . |
| 3 | Outward investment may be banned because it weakens the balance of payments and allows the life-blood capital to leak out of the system , whilst inflows of currency may be repulsed because they cause the exchange rate to rise to unacceptable levels or add to the domestic supply of money and thus threaten inflation . |
| 4 | Goods and services may be purchased because they " fit " these particular motivations . |
| 5 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |