Example sentences of "[noun] it be because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 2 | If I want children to become philosophers in RE it is because they are already incipient philosophers , as for example Gareth Matthews ( 1980 ) has persuasively argued . |
| 3 | But if I overstepped the mark it was because you made the running . ’ |
| 4 | Such a nuisance it is because it 's a condition which makes you tire more easily , leaving you short of energy and breath . |
| 5 | When dey blow a whistle it 's because dey dig de style |
| 6 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 7 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 8 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 9 | their rates it 's because they are paying that 's all ! |
| 10 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 11 | Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough . |
| 12 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 13 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 14 | In part it is because they too have unknowingly taken in the prevailing stereotypes . |
| 15 | Every election , some people discover that they are unregistered , and in most cases it is because they either forgot to fill in the form , or they moved in too late in the year to qualify . |
| 16 | If Richard Burton was lucky in his background it was because he made his luck . |
| 17 | If maintained schools failed ( and fail ) to scale those commanding heights it is because they have not wished to . |
| 18 | This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as " We see the universe the way it is because we exist . " |
| 19 | I 'm never gon na , I 'm never gon na learn learn it by concentrating on how I 'm gon na do it , I 'm just gon na have to sing it the way it is because I 'm not gon na learn to do it am I ? |
| 20 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 21 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 22 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 23 | I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired . |
| 24 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 25 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 26 | If his voice was less steady this time it was because he was cold , not because he was afraid . |
| 27 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |