Example sentences of "[be] because it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 2 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 3 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 4 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 5 | This is because it 's packed to bursting point with blood . |
| 6 | The company claims this is because it 's designed for first-time users , but it 's a nuisance if you want to import a mailing list from another package . |
| 7 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 8 | If these approaches are common to courses of study which advanced degree students follow regardless of the content ( for some will be specializing , for instance , in the field of special educational needs , others in the arts and humanities , others in mathematics and science ) it is because it is regarded as essential that the same grasp of knowledge and the same development of intellectual-cum-practical skill should typify all holders of a second degree in the field of education . |
| 9 | The reason vitamin D was regarded as a vitamin is because it is found in our food , and this is important for those who do not receive adequate exposure to sunlight — for example , the house-bound elderly . |
| 10 | This is because it is considered such a minor part of the hobby , with just a couple of species available , Monos and Scats . |
| 11 | This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood . |
| 12 | The sphere of everyday life is experienced as ordered and consistent which is because it is shared with other people and what is shared is , precisely , knowledge of everyday reality : |
| 13 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 14 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 15 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 16 | Cynics have suggested that the reason the Nelson Mandela bash attracted so many celebrities , at the expense of the more official Amnesty gig and an earlier AIDS benefit , was because it was televised worldwide to over one billion viewers . |
| 17 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 18 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |