Example sentences of "[be] because it has " in BNC.

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1 But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none .
2 Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory .
3 If western free-market fundamentalism has been faintly relaxed in the west , this is because it has been intensified in its export version .
4 This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development .
5 We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play .
6 The reason I prefer the Methodist faith is because it has the simplest form .
7 This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal .
8 If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success .
9 It has not , says BSDI , claimed the violation of any proprietary rights , such as patent rights , trade secrets or copyrights , saying that that 's because it has no proprietary rights to violate with respect to the Networking Release 2 code .
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