Example sentences of "have be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 2 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 3 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 7 | In part this may have been because the trend towards larger-scale workplaces meant children were less likely to see them working ; but there is also evidence of the now growing pressure to retire . |
| 8 | And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after . |
| 9 | This could hardly have been because large ears suited the climate ( there are strong offshore winds ) . |
| 10 | This could either have been because their services were more expensive , or because they were providing more of them . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The present Vicar of Kirkby Ravensworth , the Rev Peter Hulett , suggested — and it is just his opinion — that the dedication of the almshouse to St John may have been because John Dakyn felt himself lucky to have escaped the fate of that saint . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it . |
| 17 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This may have been because , according to Jones , he attracted most of the blame . |
| 22 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 23 | Burstall and Kay note that the positive response to NAEP testing may have been because critics were brought into the organising committee . |
| 24 | We are not sure why the Greeks chose the number 360 but it may have been because 360 can be divided up in a lot of different ways . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 27 | Alternatively it may have been because a rising number of night visits , increasingly performed before 1990 by deputies , increases health service expenditure as the cost of deputies is eventually reimbursed in the expense element of general practitioner remuneration . |
| 28 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 29 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 30 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |