Example sentences of "[be] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who has schizophrenia , they 're , they 're because they 've |
| 2 | It it should have been because I put in . |
| 3 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |
| 4 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 5 | ‘ If other men are attracted to me , then they 're attracted to more of me than you are because they see more of me . |
| 6 | It is , however , not all that we are because we know that we also have feelings and emotions . |
| 7 | so i , car radios and things like that the reception will be constant wherever you are because you do n't get any noise . |
| 8 | yeah I think what , what has happened at the moment is that he would be almost helpless because there are so many things that are wrong with the world that it seems to be because we get so much information as a |
| 9 | Rosenthal comments that ‘ the history of science generally , and the history of psychology more specifically , suggest that more of us are wrong longer than we need to be because we hold our theories not quite lightly enough . ’ |
| 10 | It has to be because we have to get our hands in . |
| 11 | This may be because we have lost sight of what education is about , or , at best , because we disagree on the aims and objectives of education . |
| 12 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
| 13 | But if it is a hung parliament , this will be because we do n't really want anyone to have any power . |
| 14 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 15 | Thus , we will not be able to predict what the apparent values of these quantities will be because we do n't know how many baby universes are waiting out there . |
| 16 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 17 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 18 | That 's erm moving along a little bit erm there 's also this business of of what I suppose in other contexts has been called blaming the victim , this business of children somehow inviting the the , if they have actually been abused , it must be because they 've invited it so erm that 's erm . |
| 19 | This may be because they occur only in association with a particular element , like the cran — of cranberry , or because they occur with a particular semantic value only in the context of one other element , like the — en of oxen , the ab — of abnormal , or foot in foot the bill ; in a case of collocational uniqueness of either of these types , no contrast in which the unique element participates can be tested in a distinct linguistic environment . |
| 20 | They do n't have the time or the resources , and that may be because they do n't have enough people at partner level to cope with the organisation that training involves . ’ |
| 21 | If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more . |
| 22 | No , it wo n't be because they do n't do the , they do n't do an open afternoon if it 's a championship |
| 23 | I suppose it could be because they feel part of such a tiny élite . |
| 24 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 25 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 26 | That can not just be because they have a lot of flotations and rights issues to work on . |
| 27 | I said slowly , ‘ It could be because I 've never been dated by anyone I liked enough . ’ |
| 28 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 29 | It might be because I keep looking at mine and . |
| 30 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |