Example sentences of "is because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their ability persistently to cause avoidable harm , injury , and suffering is because they prevent much of this becoming incorporated into laws against corporate behaviour . |
| 3 | THis is because they contain special matting agents , which cause the varnishes to dry with an irregular surface , so that light is reflected at random angles . |
| 4 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 5 | This is because they require information on future births and migration , for which accurate predictions at a local level are always difficult , and because the ancillary information available will also be less detailed . |
| 6 | ‘ The only reason people are fat , ’ he went on , ‘ is because they eat too much . |
| 7 | It is because they make the decisions that they are often under sharp pressure both from those above them in the hierarchy who allocate resources and from those with whom they deal who want to receive them . |
| 8 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is because they try to get up before their body weight is over their feet . |
| 11 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 12 | It is because they substitute half-baked faith for genuine effort and hold out promises of intervention in the world 's affairs on payment . |
| 13 | If there are also many who give that vote to the FOP , it is because they back " their own " party with reservations . |
| 14 | This is because they reach the bloodstream via the lungs and skin and work systemically , influencing the body as a whole . |
| 15 | Privately owned papers which are unprofitable do exist , but this is because they receive backing for other purposes — political , in most cases . |
| 16 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 17 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 18 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 19 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |
| 20 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 21 | Maybe it is because they do n't want to fulfil their financial commitments . |
| 22 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |
| 23 | I think this is because they do n't practice being feminine with the boys around and so they get on with the work more . |
| 24 | This is because they send data in 1,024 byte packets instead of a one-byte stream . |
| 25 | One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds . |
| 26 | That , says McKinsey , is because they spend money where it is needed rather than on grand castles in the air . |
| 27 | This is because they generate excessive amounts of data and information that must be interpreted by specialists . |
| 28 | This is because they share their bodies with algae and have to bring the algae to the surface at low tides so that they can manufacture food . |
| 29 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 30 | This is because they pay a premium rate to be ‘ first in break ’ , on the basis that more people are still watching ( prior to making the tea , or whatever ) , and that they 're still watching more attentively . |