Example sentences of "is [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein . |
| 2 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 3 | This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle . |
| 4 | This is presumably because of the prospect of subsequent litigation . |
| 5 | This is presumably because the intact epithelium acts as a barrier , preventing FGF-4 from reaching the underlying mesenchyme . |
| 6 | This is presumably because the task requires the same cognitive processors as shadowing — both tasks are speech-based . |
| 7 | This is presumably because the situation was not foreseen : the Code takes a very strict line on questioning after charge , a course of action only permitted in very narrowly defined circumstance under caution ( para . |
| 8 | Where there is a definite clicking , which was not found in our patients , the pain is presumably because of the movement of one rib upon another . |
| 9 | There is eventually because you learn it . |
| 10 | This is all because middle-class people , the polls say , want to see the rich suffer first . |
| 11 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 12 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 13 | For the avoidance of doubt , Mr. Speaker , I do not intend to give way to the hon. Gentleman and , if he persists in intervening , it is merely because the Labour party 's grasp of democracy can not survive a week such as the previous one . |
| 14 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 15 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 16 | Where a rural freight branch has survived , this is only because of the presence of a major user , such as Blue Circle Cement at Eastgate , Associated Octel at Amlwch and Esso at Fawley . |
| 17 | Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense . |
| 18 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It is only because you want to pry , to discover who writes to me , that you come out in this way every morning . |
| 20 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 21 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 22 | It is only because the different elements in the limb have their own positional identity that their pattern and form can be altered independently during evolution . |
| 23 | Several of the big bream waters I fish respond best to maggots , but this is only because maggots are continually thrown in by everyone who fishes there . |
| 24 | Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters . |
| 25 | If he appears to believe , it is only because his underlying lack of conviction is covered by other supports for faith , such as the encouragement of fellow believers , so that the weakness is not exposed . |
| 26 | It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we do n't always get what we think we want . |
| 27 | It is only because Bryan Gould is standing for leader that the soft left of the Labour Party has found a voice . |
| 28 | That is only because supplies of Thunderbirds did not arrive in Britain quickly enough to satisfy demand , according to toy experts . |
| 29 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 30 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |