Example sentences of "is because " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is because Britain will resist that idea in Malaysia that Whitehall is so anxious to build up a record of consultation , commitment and sympathy towards the majority in South Africa . |
| 32 | If the Orphic myth defines the power of music , it is because Orpheus compelled an entirely hostile audience to listen to him . |
| 33 | This is because the primary aim of most hostels is to meet a housing need . ’ |
| 34 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 35 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 36 | That is because it is a magnificent structure , the supreme architectural expression of the heroic , monumental phase of power station design and the creation of a great architect . |
| 37 | Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down . |
| 38 | It is because God is not subject to such things that He may be said not to suffer , at least in the way human beings do . |
| 39 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 40 | This is because part-time members of the force have only slight contact with regular policemen and women , and experience greater status incongruity as a result of the contrast between the responsibility held in their day-time employment and the more restricted range of their police duties . |
| 41 | One of the reasons why it might have been felt necessary in the field-worker 's presence to define the neighbourhood role as primarily crime control is because , like community relations , the Neighbourhood Unit is aware that the section police see them as having an easy duty . |
| 42 | This is because we can read only of anti-religious work as described in party documents and , from 1925 onwards , in the reports of the local League of the Godless . |
| 43 | Indeed , it is because there is no silent majority , no single entity which is being attacked by a hostile element , that this form is increasing . |
| 44 | This is because we need to justify our action , though its real basis is salus populi suprema lex . ’ |
| 45 | This is because most of today 's major recording artists compose their own songs . |
| 46 | This is because majors work on the priority system . |
| 47 | often this is because of a distinctive vocal sound , but sometimes more subtle devices make everyone want to listen . |
| 48 | Usually this is because of tax advantages . |
| 49 | The second reason why the homosexual is involved with difference is because , contrary to what the foregoing theory implies , she or he has , in historical actuality , embraced both cultural and racial difference . |
| 50 | Terence Conran once said to me : ‘ the reason why you and I do things well is because we had our apprenticeship in restaurants , ’ and I actually think that 's a very valid point , because you 've got twenty planks to the one function of actually serving food . |
| 51 | The reason you do it usually is because if you do n't succeed you 're not going to eat . |
| 52 | This is because … the process of development involves not only the production of more goods and services but also the transformation of the society itself , including the establishment of new institutions , social systems , rules and values . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | I think this is because the pop-up is much more noticeable and less selective . |
| 55 | My reason for dyeing , rather than painting these floats is because they will take more shotting . |
| 56 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |
| 57 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 58 | This is because , in the image of the world created by capitalism , the ability to supply capital is seen as enabling production to take place and as giving a wage to workers who would otherwise starve , while in fact it is really the capitalist who depends on the worker . |
| 59 | That is because , even though Maine might have been a better guide than Morgan concerning the evolution of kinship , Morgan was a much better guide than Maine concerning the evolution of property . |
| 60 | This is because the group of people descended from a common ancestor , which married as a group another group , was the famous gens . |