Example sentences of "because [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to make the observations because I 'm of the opinion that most members came into this chamber this afternoon with their minds completely and utterly made up and there is very little that we can do in this chamber this afternoon to change people 's minds . |
| 2 | Mr Rochester himself knew she was not perfect , but he was clearly preparing to marry her , perhaps because she was of good family , perhaps for some other reason . |
| 3 | Nobody has been able to identify the houses , partly because they are of a very common design that appears all over London . |
| 4 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 5 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 6 | Should the local authority refuse to initiate formal proceedings for some reason , perhaps because they are of the opinion that the odour does not amount to a statutory nuisance or they themselves are causing the offending odour , then an individual complainant may himself take summary action under s.99 of the Public Health Act 1936 , ( see Chapter 3 ) but may not bring proceedings in the High Court . |
| 7 | Certain of the various inert gas isotopes have to be excluded , some because they are of sufficiently low mass to escape in appreciable quantities from the terrestrial planets , others because they are produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes of elements other than inert gases , and others for both reasons . |
| 8 | Where the " we " -groups are exogamous , as is very often the case , the " we/they " distinction corresponds exactly to the distinction " those with whom we may not intermarry because they are of common substance with us " / " those with whom we may intermarry because they are not of common substance with us " . |
| 9 | To first order in we obtain with the help of eqn ( 7.3 ) excluding the products in Γ because they are of order h 2 . |
| 10 | In Figure 4.13 LECTURER and SUBJECT are known as ‘ siblings ’ because they are of the same level but of different types . |
| 11 | ‘ They were all appointed because they are of such standing in the worlds in which their reputations were made that they will never kowtow to proprietors or editors . ’ |
| 12 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 13 | He attributes this success to the strong bond that existed between the parents : a plentiful food supply ; the friendly interrelation of the chicks themselves , apparently because they were of opposite sexes ; and , not least , the shape and size of the nest which gave them space to keep out of each other 's way . |
| 14 | He trusted Marian and Allen because they were of the same kind as himself — children . |
| 15 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 16 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 17 | Because they were of different sizes , people considered the group a family . |
| 18 | In other cases women were raped or sexually abused because they were related to men the authorities could not capture or because they were of a particular ethnic or national origin . |
| 19 | Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily . |
| 20 | The boy had survived up till now mostly because he was of no particular interest to anyone — at least , not sufficient to surmount the barrier of that protective shadow with those fearsome teeth . |
| 21 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 22 | This ‘ separation from ’ approach is the root of such destructiveness because it is of the nature of the ‘ outsider ’ not to care . |
| 23 | Brunner by contrast appealed to the Reformers , and especially to Calvin , in support of his contentions that there is a ‘ general revelation ’ of God in the ordering of the created universe , simply because it is of his making and bears his signature , and that this has its subjective correlate in man , made in God 's image . |
| 24 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 25 | This submission would make a nonsense of the rule that a grant for an uncertain term does not create a lease and would make nonsense of the concept of a tenancy from year to year because it is of the essence of a tenancy from year to year that both the landlord and the tenant shall be entitled to give notice determining the tenancy . |
| 26 | Pameton is little publicised because it is of value only to that small number of people who may misuse medicines . |
| 27 | Hartog and Hull stated that computed tomography of the pituitary does not have a role in cases of moderate hyperprolactinaemia because it is of little value in diagnosing a microadenoma . |
| 28 | If it is in isostatic equilibrium one section of lithosphere will stand higher than another because it is of lower density ( the crustal density or Pratt model ) , of the same density but thicker ( the crustal thickness or Airy model ) , or through a combination of both a lower density and greater thickness ( Fig. 2.9 ) . |
| 29 | This is because it is of the very nature of the protocol that acts adopted under it should not be applicable to the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Perhaps because it is of the very essence of human beings that they transcend any situation into which they come or bring about . |