Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is normally because they have some fear , conscious or otherwise , about what they will unearth during the course of the treatment . |
| 2 | This is partly because they fear women in such positions simply get incorporated into the structures as they exist , and merely reproduce the same decisions as the dominant male group . |
| 3 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 4 | This is not because they lack interest , or are unrepresented in Britain : neither of these is true . |
| 5 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |
| 6 | This is not because they want to preserve General de Gaulle 's regime . |
| 7 | This is often because they have such fear for the future , for some reason of their own , that death seems preferable . |
| 8 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 9 | This is usually because they 've never thought much about Christianity and the only opinions that they have got are ones that they 've picked up from their parent(s) or the TV . |
| 10 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 11 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 12 | It is true that Dicey , the LPDL , and later the BCA , allied themselves with the Conservative party , but this was not because they considered themselves Conservatives . |
| 13 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 14 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 15 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 16 | The wallpaper , the chair , the tiny desk , the narrow bed : all were exactly as they had always been . |
| 17 | well meaning people but I mean the reason they 're saying that is simply because they do n't like what they 're doing full stop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bereaved people may seem reluctant to accept invitations out , but that is often because they feel that they will be in the way or make an odd number at any gathering , and the hurt and embarrassment this creates is awful . |
| 20 | Oh that 's probably because they want you to look for yourself . |
| 21 | But that 's just because they wear black and the bass player glides in synch with the disaster area that is the guitar player . |
| 22 | For example , in fifteen fifty seven/eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundred pounds to six hundred , and that 's entirely because they pulled in awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 23 | For example , in fifteen fifty-seven , eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundreds pounds to six hundred and that 's entirely because they pulled in an awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 24 | Oh can you imagine what that 's like if they have one ? |
| 25 | That was even before they 'd asked him what qualifications he 'd got . |
| 26 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |