Example sentences of "be because " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're because it 's Sunday . |
| 2 | Do n't , do n't lose the basic utility of the system , they 're because you 're irritated by a form that has no , no relevance to you . |
| 3 | who has schizophrenia , they 're , they 're because they 've |
| 4 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |
| 5 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 6 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 7 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 8 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 9 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 10 | In part this may have been because the trend towards larger-scale workplaces meant children were less likely to see them working ; but there is also evidence of the now growing pressure to retire . |
| 11 | And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after . |
| 12 | This could hardly have been because large ears suited the climate ( there are strong offshore winds ) . |
| 13 | This could either have been because their services were more expensive , or because they were providing more of them . |
| 14 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 15 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 16 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 17 | This may have been because he was ignorant or stupid but , reading between the lines of Heinz 's file , it is more likely that the foreman had taken against his young charge who was ‘ very intelligent and conceited ’ . |
| 18 | The present Vicar of Kirkby Ravensworth , the Rev Peter Hulett , suggested — and it is just his opinion — that the dedication of the almshouse to St John may have been because John Dakyn felt himself lucky to have escaped the fate of that saint . |
| 19 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 20 | It was , accordingly , never certain why Paul Arkwright had tried to commit suicide ; it must , everyone said , have been because he was going mad . |
| 21 | This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it . |
| 22 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 23 | This might have been because he 'd been kept in an aviary and not given enough exercise , and i felt sure I could put that right . |
| 24 | It could only have been because he read his poetry . |
| 25 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 26 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 27 | This may have been because , according to Jones , he attracted most of the blame . |
| 28 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 29 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 30 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |