Example sentences of "be because [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that people have got to turn in the other direction , and really want to be because I see in schools there are |
| 2 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
| 3 | Lindsay Philpott , the Tory , is said to be at an even greater disadvantage than he would otherwise be because he lives in Cardiff . |
| 4 | Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over . |
| 5 | This is because they relied on features common to the whole of the lower class ( restricted legitimate opportunities ) ; these were very common , crime relatively rare . |
| 6 | It is because they take to these artificial sites so readily that pied flycatchers have been studied in such detail : breeding in a nest box allows nests to be checked and the adults to be caught and ringed much more easily than if they were in natural cavities . |
| 7 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 8 | The reason why carnivores exist at all is because they arrived on Earth first . |
| 9 | This is because they look like three sixth-formers farting around in their bedroom with a drum machine , busy drowning in a prog-rock flood of their own ideas . |
| 10 | Those exposed to it often make changes in themselves , but that is because they want to , not because we are dissatisfied with them as they are . |
| 11 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 12 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 13 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |
| 14 | If the facilitator is successful , it is because he acts as a traffic cop ; he rephrases the conversation whenever it is necessary ; he clarifies issues ; he points out messages that may be upsetting others , and so on . |
| 15 | Another reason why you might resort to sanctions is because you feel like it ! |
| 16 | ‘ That is because you started in the wrong place . |
| 17 | The first and best is because you want to . |
| 18 | The only reason you believe that is because you want to ! ’ |
| 19 | This is because I have at last discovered the key to my existence , the meaning of my life . |
| 20 | But this er American pilot , Commanding General , stands before this group with a great sense of humility and a , a sense of great honour , recognizing the only reason I 'm here is because I have to be the Commanding General . |
| 21 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 24 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 25 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 26 | The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 27 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 28 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 29 | This is because it stands in a position closer to totally autonomous behaviour ( at the top ) than the others . |
| 30 | I admit it sounds like a lot ; but that 's because everybody thinks of what they could do with it if it ended up in their bank account . |