Example sentences of "be because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 2 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 3 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 4 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 5 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 6 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 7 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 8 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 9 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 10 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 11 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 12 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 13 | and it must of been because of that |
| 14 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 15 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 16 | THE IRAQIS latest cruel act of jailing British chef Paul Ride and their persistent attacks on Shi'ites are because of our feebleness . |
| 17 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 18 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 19 | If I do n't do well , then it will be because on the day I was not capable of doing so . |
| 20 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 21 | If that class is sadly numerous today , it may be because of a common belief that ‘ British poetry has chosen to turn inwards , parochial , self-comforting and serviceable ’ . |
| 22 | If I decided to play in it , it would not be because of $50,000 but because I felt better . |
| 23 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 24 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 25 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |
| 26 | If the Tories lose , it will not be because of him , or the campaign . |
| 27 | This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands . |
| 28 | If I can ever claim association with genius it will be because of my friendship with Emily Carr . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | This may be because of the difference in lithology between the platform sediments of the Z2 and Z3 Carbonates , but is also possible that the episodes of exposure and leaching in the Z3 Carbonate were of shorter duration and therefore less effective in generating porosity . |