Example sentences of "[adj] is because " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason it is funny is because a person could not be a mile high . |
| 2 | I 'm convinced that the main reason The Cowboy Junkies are popular is because of their name . |
| 3 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 4 | The reason it 's warm is because of all that warm blood that 's leaked into it . |
| 5 | And the reason why they were n't sitting straight is because one shoulder was higher than the other . |
| 6 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 7 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |
| 8 | One reason why ants are so sophisticated is because of their complex language of chemical communication , which Dr Wilson has done more than anyone to elucidate . |
| 9 | Indeed , the chief reason why the proportion of older people is so large is because the proportion of younger people is so much smaller , having this century almost halved , while the former has trebled . |
| 10 | The reason why I feel so strongly about the care of the mentally ill is because of all that my aunt , Peggy Jay , taught me . |
| 11 | The reason it sounds so powerful is because it 's completely unself-conscious . |
| 12 | The difficulty which many people have in seeing this where religion is concerned is because of an either/or mentality . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 14 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 15 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 16 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 17 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 18 | The reason that is disappearing is because they have n't got a purpose to get out of bed in the morning , exactly . |
| 19 | So we are both intrigued to learn that the only reason Rainbow remains single is because of some unspoken romantic tragedy , delicately hinted at by Goldie , in her youth . |
| 20 | These are both rather ominous examples of hidden agendas , because the reason for being secretive is because the real motive is essentially manipulative . |
| 21 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |
| 22 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 23 | er and some of the solutions that are offered to reduce those crimes involve women restricting , their movements and their freedoms , but I think one of the other reasons why generally people who are victims of crime be they men or women feel guilty is because one of the implicit elements in tradition crime prevention strategies is for us to reduce the opportunity for crime |
| 24 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 25 | The reason it is almost unbeatable is because there is one thing missing : a ‘ centrefold ’ poster , of the person shown on your front cover . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Perhaps part of the reason why some representations come to be considered as true is because we are habitualised into misrecognising the fragment as the entirety . |