Example sentences of "to be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | For older people just over half the refusals for grants are reported to be because the basic criteria are not satisfied . |
| 2 | This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis . |
| 3 | This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands . |
| 4 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 5 | New Scientist , in an article by Stephen Salter , explained that simplicity was not synonymous with efficiency or even soundness and that failure of a project is often wrongly said to be because of its complexity . |
| 6 | It seems to be because , in their doggie way , they share a similar range of social emotions and behaviour and have a subtle structure in sympathy with their human companions . |
| 7 | Many German businesses are woefully inefficient ; they are allowed to be because there is n't the pressure to produce profits , there is n't the pressure to pay dividends . ’ |
| 8 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 9 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 10 | She was a smartly dressed woman , different from the other women in our district , but then she could afford to be because they were very comfortably off . |
| 11 | I 'm in very good physical shape and that 's the way it 's got to be because there 's so much at stake with Newcastle and the Republic 's World Cup qualifying campaign . |
| 12 | This seems to be because temple , villa and tomb sites have been plundered — mainly in antiquity — rather than because of any original dearth . |
| 13 | This seems partly to be because ‘ human nature ’ , interpreted biologically , is a popular last resort explanation of human behaviour . |
| 14 | The absence of Digital Equipment Corp , with IBM and Hewlett a founder-sponsor of the Open Software Foundation , is assumed to be because DEC is putting most of its eggs in-to the Microsoft NT basket these days . |
| 15 | It certainly did not appear to be because they had any great fear of violence or mass escapes . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 17 | This seems to be because owning the floors one cleans promises such a harmonious alliance between the worker and her work that dissatisfaction is ( in theory ) ruled out . |
| 18 | On the hand it most likely to be because the subject discussed is of great interest to the newspaper 's readers . |
| 19 | It has to be because we have to get our hands in . |
| 20 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 21 | Got to be because of the election . |
| 22 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 23 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 24 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 25 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 26 | But I knew that that was where God wanted me to be because it was such a miracle . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a bit scary that he 's such a big star — I would n't want to be because you get so isolated from everybody , without much contact with normal people , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Oh aye , had to be because I mean you do n't stay young forever , |
| 29 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 30 | And I think it is , we would all agree , that it is essential that an agreement which is acceptable to all sides is reached , and I 'm sure that it 's going to be because let us not forget that we 're not in business to remain in perpetual opposition if we are to achieve proper rights for employees , which have been so reduced by the Conservatives if we are to save the welfare state , which is now so under threat if we are to obtain decent health and education services , which are also under threat if we are to create a strong economy and a strong recovery which provides the jobs which we so desperately need then we must win power ! |