Example sentences of "[adv] because " in BNC.

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1 I walk upstream ; upstream because I can wade to the other bank if I need to and any disturbance will not carry far against the current .
2 Try using fine sea salt as a scrub — this will help dry out blemishes naturally because it 's slightly antiseptic .
3 I ca n't behave naturally because I must n't give offence .
4 These are businesses which have grown naturally because of a need that we have recognized and it is reasonable to suppose that if we have done the job right , and tested the external market to see if such services are not available to our satisfaction elsewhere , we would start with some sort of competitive edge .
5 For many students , the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests .
6 It was n't only due to the harsh words they had exchanged over Ryan ; she found it hard to write naturally because of the lie she was enacting .
7 I think there , there was a genuine democratic element to this that , that it , i i i it was n't going to be forcible socialism , it was going to be socialism which would come naturally because that would be what the population wanted .
8 The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections .
9 They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite .
10 However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state .
11 Perhaps because in painting as in writing we start from top left hand side , so that the right is always less clear .
12 In recent days , he wrote , perhaps because Spring is upon us , I have been putting in the hours but the intensity has gone .
13 Perhaps because no photographer 's sense of composition or lighting has come between the subject and the reader , they manage to be informative as well as visually satisfying .
14 Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’
15 Mine do n't eat tadpoles , perhaps because I feed them regularly .
16 Unlike the natural sciences , which deal largely in results , the social sciences are rightly concerned for practice , perhaps because results are rarely possible in an exact mathematical sense .
17 It is also worth noting that correlations between ERPs and behaviour are never perfect , perhaps because of masking of some of the ERPs by random fluctuations of the background EEG .
18 Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country .
19 The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered .
20 Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance .
21 Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females .
22 Perhaps because to think about reform is to think about its purposes , Mr Honecker and his colleagues keep their minds closed to such challenges .
23 He also published a novel , acted in movies and assisted on the screen plays of others ; but he did not direct again after 1974 , perhaps because a much-anticipated family saga , La Maison des Bories , reveals many of the faults of those film-makers swept away by the nouvelle vague , and none of the movement 's freshness .
24 The Law Game ( Radio 2 , Tuesday ) also has an audience response problem , perhaps because the format is tired ; after all , it is in its fourteenth series .
25 Even the left-wing Tony Benn was relatively quiescent , not least perhaps because he was now the bringer of good news at the Department of Energy , as North Sea oil began to flow in large quantities .
26 By the end of the 1980s , partly as a result of deliberate government action , more perhaps because the unduly optimistic assumptions of Beveridge and other founders of the British welfare system were being falsified by financial and cultural factors ( such as the breakdown of the old nuclear family of fabled tradition ) , the welfare state was far less able to temper the asperities of a harsh and divided society .
27 Ironically , bearing in mind the casualty statistics of rear gunners , ‘ Jacko ’ was the sole survivor of the crew — perhaps because the aircraft crashed while flying too low over enemy territory .
28 Tom Mboya had supported these moves , not least perhaps because of his long-standing animosity towards Odinga , but in doing so sowed the seeds of his own downfall .
29 Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy .
30 Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her .
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