Example sentences of "be because he " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 2 | This may have been because he was ignorant or stupid but , reading between the lines of Heinz 's file , it is more likely that the foreman had taken against his young charge who was ‘ very intelligent and conceited ’ . |
| 3 | It was , accordingly , never certain why Paul Arkwright had tried to commit suicide ; it must , everyone said , have been because he was going mad . |
| 4 | This might have been because he 'd been kept in an aviary and not given enough exercise , and i felt sure I could put that right . |
| 5 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 6 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 7 | The only reason he had not opened the front door had been because he was frightened . |
| 8 | Mind you , that could have been because he was happy he 'd got his own way . |
| 9 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 10 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |
| 11 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 12 | He tells me to stay where I am because he 's coming to fetch me . |
| 13 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 14 | ‘ The only reason so many clubs have signed him must be because he 's a good motivator . |
| 15 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 16 | The head said ‘ Yes , he does have difficulty remembering — particularly sounding ’ , and felt that this could be because he was perhaps more fluent in Punjabi . |
| 17 | That , however , would be because he had no other remedy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 20 | Lindsay Philpott , the Tory , is said to be at an even greater disadvantage than he would otherwise be because he lives in Cardiff . |
| 21 | They were because he could n't get a pair of ordinary shoes to fit over his infected and frost-bitten feet from four months described as ‘ the nastiest of my life . ’ |
| 22 | This is because he has recently practised safety procedures for almost every conceivable emergency , and they are therefore fresh in his mind . |
| 23 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 24 | It 's not because he is sick and tired of talking to people ( which would be understandable ) , it is because he is truly very , very shy . |
| 25 | This is because he is not legally entitled to recover the cost incurred by carrying out the repairs necessary to remedy the defect that the surveyor failed to spot . |
| 26 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 27 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 28 | It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away . |
| 29 | Georg Breuer 's book does not mention those advances and that , I think , is because he is too concerned with the past . |
| 30 | He feels that it is because he has a high ethical and moral standard in his approach to sacred sites that he has earned their trust over the years . |