Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports from Finland , Norway , and USA suggest that the declining incidence of gastric carcinomas is mainly because of a marked decrease in tumours of intestinal type . |
| 2 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 3 | The comparative infrequency of colonic carcinoma that we have found compared with other studies is probably because of the differences in the age distribution of the populations studied . |
| 4 | The lack of satisfactory studies on the use of activated charcoal in reducing drug absorption in poisoned patients is largely because the task is so difficult . |
| 5 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 6 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 7 | ( Until the landing of Apollo 16 in a highland plains area it was thought that the lunar highland plains might be of lava origin , but the discovery of copious quantities of brecchia indicates that the fairly level surface and the lower crater density than the surrounding highlands is probably because of an abundant fall of ejecta . ) |