Example sentences of "[modal v] be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No reason why you should be because she was . ’ |
| 2 | Our primary motives for climbing a hill should be because it simply looks attractive , or out of botanical , geological or historical interest . |
| 3 | If they exercised them , it should be because they had earned them . |
| 4 | 3 But it also makes sense to say that the British constitution is what the authorities say it should be because their views on these matters help to police everyday political practice , pulling it into line with the constitutional theory which they themselves advance as the proper way to conduct politics . |
| 5 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |
| 6 | No I suppose not in a sense , but there again we should be because like you 've just explained , why should they give themselves a |
| 7 | Well it certainly should be because it 's for the families , for the young children and they , they ca n't understand what it , all of it is about so it should be kept as simple and as short as possible . |
| 8 | In principle they should be because they are part of erm your assessment . |
| 9 | Mind you there again it 's cheaper than it should be because we 're paying it on VAT , you know , it , er , they must think we 're fools |
| 10 | ‘ My father , puzzled for an instant as to the meaning of this accident , since Mrs Goodyer was the gentlest and most inoffensive of our Church members , decided that it must be because she had made an idol of her husband … ‘ |
| 11 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |
| 12 | Some of this must be because they are a generation that ‘ made shift ’ through the was and the depression . |
| 13 | If this is supposed impossible for the Westerner ( assuming he is not too old ! ) it must be because , and only because , he does not have access to information allowed the Chinese as children . |
| 14 | It must be because it gets me out of the tent in the middle of the night to stand and contemplate the untroubled majesty of The Plough . |
| 15 | ‘ The only reason so many clubs have signed him must be because he 's a good motivator . |
| 16 | Presumably this must be because , unlike the war-tax protesters , they do succumb to a competing individual right which is capable of being derived from the principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 17 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 18 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 19 | He decided that this must be because Julian had hurt her more than she cared to admit . |
| 20 | If sanctioned norms are necessary in the human case , or socialization into rule-observing behaviour , this must be because constraints on human responses in these areas are not , or not significantly , genetically based . |
| 21 | The answer must be because the researcher assumes that cigarette smoking has nothing to do with unemployment , while educational achievement may have . |
| 22 | It must be because I need him . |
| 23 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 24 | It must be because I 'm not reacting to the socket like the receptionist would . |
| 25 | If she did not see fit to prevent their actions , it must be because they served her purposes . |
| 26 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 27 | It must be because people have come out . |
| 28 | On the one hand there are those who argue , in a fairly simplistic way , that if military expenditure is high , it must be because the people want it to be so . |
| 29 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 30 | ‘ Then that must be because you provoke me . |