Example sentences of "[adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must obviously be because of MOD publicity restrictions . |
| 2 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 3 | ‘ If [ the argument ] were right , then the result would merely be that the making of the contract constituted the appropriation . |
| 4 | The choice can only be whether animals benefit from our practices or are harmed by them . |
| 5 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 6 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 7 | For the alternative view can only be that the assumptions on which that policy is founded are unsound , if only in supposing that employers can and will deliver wage restraint . |
| 8 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 9 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 10 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 11 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 12 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 13 | It 'll only be after I 've m met a few people and photographed them well , that maybe my name will be start to be mentioned around That is another reason for courting the Trade 's Council and any other councillors that come in . |
| 14 | But such systems can only be as good as those who use them in an original research context , and I have a genuine concern that an over-abundance of records will lead to confusion , or to the adoption of narrow and blinkered research strategies . |
| 15 | It 's not that good , cos it 's either Final Fight you have to be or you can only pick out of and or it 's Final Fight guy where you can only be or Guy . |
| 16 | That back-up service would also allow our full-time officers to concentrate on the recruitment and servicing of our members , which must and must only be and remain our highest priority . |
| 17 | They decided that it could only be because Joan 's health was so poor in the fens that the professor was forced to move . |
| 18 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 19 | It could only be because they had something to hide . |
| 20 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 21 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 22 | And all of this can only be because you are very wicked indeed . |
| 23 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
| 24 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 25 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 26 | Well that only should only be because erm the bin 's going to be soiled . |
| 27 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 28 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 29 | If an animal does not eat a food item at one moment but does later , it may only be because it was not hungry before , not because it has learned to see it . |
| 30 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |