Example sentences of "be perhaps because " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am flippant , it 's perhaps because nearly all these books are awkward about the limitations of psychology . |
| 2 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 3 | This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture . |
| 4 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 5 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |
| 6 | If certain aspects of Vincent 's personality repel us , it is perhaps because he is never full face . |
| 7 | If the description seems an overly gloomy one , it is perhaps because teachers themselves often tend to focus on aspects of the job that they would wish to minimize or remove . |
| 8 | It is perhaps because of this that there is so much opposition to any form of state involvement in today 's press . |
| 9 | It is perhaps because of Oakeshott 's philosophical approach to his subject that we are able , through the study of his thought , more clearly to discern both the roots of conservative political thought and its links with a particular approach to the issues of public law . |
| 10 | This is perhaps because the infant 's relation with its mother is disturbed when the child begins to perceive its father as another figure in the family . |
| 11 | It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West . |
| 12 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 13 | It is perhaps because the element of the surreal which is more strongly emphasised here , conveys a livelier sense of discovery . |
| 14 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 15 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 16 | I think this was perhaps because the kind of personality he had was not always willing to obey , he did not have a ‘ normal ’ psychology . |
| 17 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 18 | She suggests that this was perhaps because women have traditionally been seen as having a passive relation to language which is similar to that of a simultaneous interpreter who translates the ideas of others but does not produce any of her own ( 32 ) . |