Example sentences of "is because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's just an estimate — nobody really knows what the figure is because nobody bothers to calculate it . |
| 2 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 3 | This is because somebody wearing the Star Wars character 's outfit officially opened it recently , and also because it is a huge black obelisk which sucks the sun out of the sky . |
| 4 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 5 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 6 | Their ability persistently to cause avoidable harm , injury , and suffering is because they prevent much of this becoming incorporated into laws against corporate behaviour . |
| 7 | THis is because they contain special matting agents , which cause the varnishes to dry with an irregular surface , so that light is reflected at random angles . |
| 8 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 9 | This is because they require information on future births and migration , for which accurate predictions at a local level are always difficult , and because the ancillary information available will also be less detailed . |
| 10 | This is because they relied on features common to the whole of the lower class ( restricted legitimate opportunities ) ; these were very common , crime relatively rare . |
| 11 | ‘ The only reason people are fat , ’ he went on , ‘ is because they eat too much . |
| 12 | It is because they make the decisions that they are often under sharp pressure both from those above them in the hierarchy who allocate resources and from those with whom they deal who want to receive them . |
| 13 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 14 | It is because they take to these artificial sites so readily that pied flycatchers have been studied in such detail : breeding in a nest box allows nests to be checked and the adults to be caught and ringed much more easily than if they were in natural cavities . |
| 15 | This is because they try to get up before their body weight is over their feet . |
| 16 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 17 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 18 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 19 | Usually this is because they got ready before the rain started falling and are unable to see that they are not going to stay up unless they wait until the shower has passed . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The reason KimberlyClark chose Humberside is because they got a higher level of grant aid . |
| 21 | If there are also many who give that vote to the FOP , it is because they back " their own " party with reservations . |
| 22 | This is because they reach the bloodstream via the lungs and skin and work systemically , influencing the body as a whole . |
| 23 | Privately owned papers which are unprofitable do exist , but this is because they receive backing for other purposes — political , in most cases . |
| 24 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 25 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 26 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 27 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |
| 28 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 29 | Maybe it is because they do n't want to fulfil their financial commitments . |
| 30 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |