Example sentences of "this be because [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , this is because automatisation depends upon practice at performances which do not vary , whereas the underlying meanings of sentences are very rarely the same . |
| 2 | Explain that this is because ice takes up more space than the water that froze to make it . |
| 3 | It is not clear whether this is because researchers have looked and failed to find them , or have yet to look . |
| 4 | Dr K. Satyanarayana , an expert on Indian medical journals , argues that this is because journals contain little of practical use and interest for the general practitioners . |
| 5 | This is because Bill left school at fourteen years of age in the ‘ bad old days ’ and has had a pretty varied career . |
| 6 | Partly this is because management has placed limitations on who can operate the VDUs , and partly the layout of the plant is such that there is only space for four cars between each work station . |
| 7 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 8 | This is because government has never lost sight of the primacy of production , and has been able to avoid excessive borrowing to pay for it — in Cameroun because of the availability of oil , and in Kenya as a result of the low-key transfer of assets into African hands without any disruption in production . |
| 9 | This is because males vary greatly among themselves in success . |
| 10 | In a perfect capital market , the price of a perpetual bond ( that is , one which is never redeemed ) which earns £5 per annum for its owner will be £100 when the rate of interest is 5 per cent — this is because £100 invested in any other income-earning asset would earn a return of £5 . |
| 11 | This is because wires used in practice ( e.g. copper ) are non-magnetic : we do n't need to worry about boundary conditions at all . |
| 12 | This is because majors work on the priority system . |
| 13 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 14 | This is because radio presents the writer with awkward problems alongside great opportunities . |
| 15 | This is because Togs have wetness barriers . |
| 16 | Whether this is because people absent mindedly leave them up trees we have been unable to ascertain . |
| 17 | This is because Culpitt endeavours not only to provide some useful insights into such thorny issues as welfare rights and obligations as well as the concept of need ( which should be read in conjunction with Doyal and Gough 's ( 1991 ) recent analysis ) but also to chart the way in which the management of welfare has been transformed as a result of the drift towards privatization and the emerging emphasis on the purchase rather than the provision of welfare in the public sphere . |
| 18 | This is because Karnataka does not have to replace nuclear plants with alternative power sources , where the least environmentally damaging happens to be most expensive . |
| 19 | This is because relationships rely very much upon the reactions and behaviour of the other person involved . |
| 20 | This is because ScottishPower repurchased £142 million of government debt last November , in the light of falling interest rates . |
| 21 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 22 | This is because acetylation takes place rapidly on the entry of 5-ASA into the cell and no unchanged 5-ASA can be detected intracellularly . |
| 23 | This is because alcohol negates the effects of the drug . |
| 24 | He would never admit to himself that this was because Jeopardy seemed beyond him ; Lucien was convinced he could never be included in Jeopardy 's elite circle of friends , and so it was easier to dislike him , to pick fault and criticise . |
| 25 | Partly this was because tradition demanded that they should do so . |
| 26 | This was because officers listening to sonar buoys needed this frequency response to distinguish between Allied and German submarines , and they needed a set of training-records . |
| 27 | Partly , this was because broadcasters realised that the Argentinian version of events was often more reliable than the British . |
| 28 | This was because Lennie did ‘ bad things ’ and he was making it very difficult for George to see his dreams becoming reality . |
| 29 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 30 | At the time of this repossession by X the car clearly belonged to Z. This was because X had sold it to Y who had sold it to Z. It was held , however , that Y , in allowing X to repossess the car , was within the section . |