Example sentences of "[adv] this [be] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is because , as a member of the Abingdon Group put it : ‘ In a group there is the fun and companionship … and the awe at saving a life , supporting a prisoner through years of isolation , getting your prisoner free . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps this is because I am American and because of the strong equal opportunities laws in the US , which protect women and encourage companies to promote women to executive positions . ’ |
| 4 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is because all these changes affected middle class feminists , and middle class feminists have always been an embarrassment to their radical sisters who feel the movement would be purer if all its adherents were working class or women of colour . |
| 8 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 9 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |
| 10 | Perhaps this was because of their poor living conditions which would raise the question of why they were in poor housing . |
| 11 | Perhaps this was because with two full tanks and six people aboard we were just short of the 5,090-pound max weight — or more likely Tony was deliberately limiting the output of his nearly-new engine below the normal 36 inches and 2,300 rpm , but the long Wiplines seemed to have a much less clearly defined hump than other floats I have flown . |
| 12 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps this was because Richard paid better than all rival employers , but over so long an association other bonds must have developed . |
| 14 | Perhaps this was because she belonged to Fred , which meant that there was no call to Oh , all that , he thought , shutting up in his own head . |
| 15 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 16 | Possibly this is because of the personal associations that clothes have . |
| 17 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 18 | Usually this is because they got ready before the rain started falling and are unable to see that they are not going to stay up unless they wait until the shower has passed . |
| 19 | Usually this is because of tax advantages . |
| 20 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 21 | Probably this is because we were able to explore students ' work in an active way . |
| 22 | Partly this is because management has placed limitations on who can operate the VDUs , and partly the layout of the plant is such that there is only space for four cars between each work station . |
| 23 | And partly this is because the closer you get to concrete ‘ race relations ’ the less likely they are to conform to the models which have informed policy making . |
| 24 | Partly this is because , where political objectives such as employment are given high priority , enterprise management will be judged on the basis of its ability to maintain or expand the workforce rather than on its financial performance ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 84 ) . |
| 25 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 26 | Partly this was because tradition demanded that they should do so . |
| 27 | Partly this was because the division of the radio spectrum was fixed internationally , and the government was guarantor of British conformity to the agreement . |
| 28 | Partly this was because there were greater numbers of large firms able to afford such benefits . |
| 29 | Partly this was because many of the enthusiastic supporters of the rational expectations hypothesis also tended to subscribe to the market clearing paradigm . |
| 30 | often this is because of a distinctive vocal sound , but sometimes more subtle devices make everyone want to listen . |