Example sentences of "[that] [det] [is] because " in BNC.

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1 I do n't say that that 's because you know what the Greeks are like because I do n't know what the Greeks are like .
2 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 .
3 which was we do n't know who won we do n't know what the score was but we think that but we 're , we 're assuming that that 's because they bring out all their secret showmen who do n't sh travel they have a little core , hard core of that do n't travel but they , they bring them out
4 s he did n't remain in the parking in the driving seat er and in fact that that 's because one of the lads was er a keen photographer and er So that 's actually how it did go .
5 I assume that that 's because I 'm a Consultant Paediatrician in Banbury .
6 It might be countered that that is because the Oxbridge graduate has more to offer in social ‘ maturity ’ , in interpersonal skills , in self-confidence , and in being articulate .
7 Some would say that that is because of the recession , but we are in a slump rather than a recession .
8 I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries .
9 Some Tories would argue that this is because the successors to Mrs Thatcher 's clear-cut brand of Conservatism have moved towards the soft centre and have floundered in the quicksands of consensus .
10 I am convinced that this is because the barbel are so conditioned to seeing this plastic larder pop through the surface and spread good things to eat along the bottom , they are waiting for it to happen .
11 It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away .
12 Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative .
13 One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds .
14 More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users .
15 Allen Wood explains that this is because a fellow amateur had ended up in trouble after being written up last year in the New York Times .
16 He is clearly disappointed with the low take-up of the early release programme in the US , but understands that this is because customers already have their hands full coping with downsizing .
17 Leftist critics have suggested that this is because any consideration of the socio-economic context of crime would have proved an embarrassment to the classical position .
18 Some time ago , Matza and Sykes ( 1961 ) suggested that this is because among ‘ respectable ’ people criminal motivations exist at the ‘ subterranean ’ level and only surface on special , licensing situations such as the business man 's night on the town , carnivals , office parties , student rags , and so on .
19 Moore 's view is that this is because , although each individual component of the total consciousness has its own value , one which it could retain in other contexts , the consciousness as a whole has a further value .
20 Explanations from refiners would suggest that this is because the Supreme Court has confidence in the Diet , regards the legislature as the main expression of popular sovereignty , and that the Japanese tradition is to settle disputes by negotiation which , in the case of controversial legislation , is adequately done in the Diet .
21 To say that human beings from time to time have sexual intercourse , and that this is because they have sexual instincts , is as circular as the argument about hunger .
22 They assert that this is because women 's position is determined by the position of the family in which they live , and that this is determined by that of the male breadwinner .
23 We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play .
24 Beattie suggests that this is because much of the semantic planning for this phase has been carried out during the preceding hesitant phase .
25 Hare ( 1973 ) has suggested ( see also p. 111 ) that this is because fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , and that the geomorphic time-scale is very long compared with that appropriate for climatic processes , although glaciology is in a very different situation .
26 Explain that this is because ice takes up more space than the water that froze to make it .
27 And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function .
28 Dr K. Satyanarayana , an expert on Indian medical journals , argues that this is because journals contain little of practical use and interest for the general practitioners .
29 example An essay pointing out that Shakespeare 's first sonnet ends with a comma in the first printed edition and arguing that this is because it is the first part of a larger poem including also the second sonnet .
30 It is reasonable to assume that this is because the stereotype of the educated Jamaican Standard speaker is one that is familiar to children of Caribbean background but is not generally recognised in the white community .
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