Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is n't because the workers wo n't work hard enough , not when three million do n't even have the chance . |
| 2 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 3 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 4 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 5 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 6 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |
| 7 | But it is also because their own specialist interests have led them in other directions . |
| 8 | But it is also because of the geography of growth of the service sector , which has also been very uneven . |
| 9 | This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected . |
| 10 | But it is also because people in the Third World have realized that there are very few jobs available in which their children can use an education . |
| 11 | But it is also because one or two traders have squeezed the Brent forward market , which sets the price . |
| 12 | This is partly because of the association between old age and poor housing conditions , but it is primarily because of the association between poor housing conditions and low-income owners . |
| 13 | But it is just because participants in conversation may be expected to observe the sub-maxim " be orderly " that we have that expectation . |
| 14 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 15 | But it is n't because you care about animals . |
| 16 | But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous . |
| 17 | ‘ And you have your Steve back , ’ he accused darkly , ‘ and it should be enough to satisfy us all , but it is n't because sometimes affairs leave behind a tangled web of anguish . |
| 18 | But it is partly because the social security system is centrally run , overworked and understaffed that the customers all too often receive such a poor service . |
| 19 | But it is largely because Loch Ness is so biologically unproductive that it is also biologically stable : it is spared the seasonal booms and crashes in the populations of living things that are characteristic of more productive lakes . |
| 20 | But it is precisely because many of us do that they are dangerous . |
| 21 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 22 | You might be surprised that this needs mentioning ; but it is precisely because these same strategies are maladaptive in many domestic situations that horses are labelled stupid . |
| 23 | There are many reasons for this , but it is mainly because the infilled ditch contains more moisture than the surrounding dry soil . |