Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm convinced that the main reason The Cowboy Junkies are popular is because of their name . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 3 | And the only reason that they were undamaged was because he had n't made up his mind whether simply to destroy them , his original intention , or whether to try to sell the designs to someone else . |
| 4 | These are both rather ominous examples of hidden agendas , because the reason for being secretive is because the real motive is essentially manipulative . |
| 5 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 6 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |
| 7 | The reason it is funny is because a person could not be a mile high . |
| 8 | The reason it 's warm is because of all that warm blood that 's leaked into it . |
| 9 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |
| 10 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 11 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 12 | The difficulty which many people have in seeing this where religion is concerned is because of an either/or mentality . |
| 13 | The reason that is disappearing is because they have n't got a purpose to get out of bed in the morning , exactly . |
| 14 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 15 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |