Example sentences of "may be because [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 2 | Where this is not the case , it may be because males can not identify the breeding potential of young females or because female choice pre-empts male competition rather than because variation in success is slight among males . |
| 3 | ‘ This may be because nutrition not outside stimulation is the major environmental determinant of intelligence , ’ he concludes . |
| 4 | This may be because birds find scent cues particularly reliable cues in Italy , whereas in other parts of the world alternative guides are more important . |
| 5 | This may be because definitions were unclear or because criteria for targeting the two systems had not yet been formulated . |
| 6 | South Tees Health Authority will hear on Thursday it may be because teenagers can not always get condoms easily and they do not have the negotiating skills to insist that condoms are used during sexual intercourse . |
| 7 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 8 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 9 | This may be because interest must be met whereas dividends or equity can be passed or reduced . |
| 10 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 11 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 12 | The reason for this may be because God was increasingly called ‘ the Holy One ’ ( there was a slightly increasing tendency in intertestamental writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls to speak of ‘ the Holy Spirit ’ ) but might just be due to the character of Jesus . |
| 13 | The reason for such anomalies may be because flavonoids are also potent lipoxygenase products such as the leukotrienes are powerful inflammatory agents . |