Example sentences of "[adv] because the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps because the authorities thought the police were too closely involved , as individuals , in the business of the meeting ( in Kufra they were Zuwaya to a man ) , army units turned out from their camp to supervise the meeting . |
| 6 | It is also possible that with the decline in activity in Norfolk , other eastern counties were considered attractive for the next phase in development , perhaps because the ground in the west appeared to have been secured through Shearman and Miss Green . |
| 7 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 8 | Perhaps because the mind is the crucial organ in the human body , there has always been a tendency to ostracize such people from society . |
| 9 | During 1919 he painted a mother and child which took him more than forty sittings , perhaps because the subject was of such personal interest . |
| 10 | His correspondence concerning rowdiness ( a matter on which many people have written , especially since sound broadcasting of Parliament started ) had decreased , perhaps because the public were better able to appreciate the context in which noise arose . |
| 11 | This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | For many years the Government offered an annual award of 10000 Belgian francs for research into sexually transmitted diseases , but even this has been discontinued , perhaps because the award always went to a foreigner . |
| 13 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 14 | The effects of these changes in agricultural techniques so far are by no means catastrophic for birds , perhaps because the limited availability of bushy nesting cover in predominantly arable areas has controlled the number of many common passerines below the levels the potential food supply could support . |
| 15 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 16 | There are also a disconcerting number of rustlings and clickings , perhaps because the recording is so close you can almost hear the stardust settling . |
| 17 | Perhaps because the tortoiseshell male was neither fully male nor fully female , it did not feel the need to compete in these single-sex pecking-order disputes . |
| 18 | Alice Mair said : ‘ Perhaps because the imaginings are usually worse . ’ |
| 19 | So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective . |
| 20 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
| 21 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 22 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 23 | I think this was perhaps because the kind of personality he had was not always willing to obey , he did not have a ‘ normal ’ psychology . |
| 24 | In cichlids this seems to pose no particular problem , perhaps because the average female cichlid will content herself with any mate if an appropriate one is not available . |
| 25 | Perhaps because the problems of transport eroded their feeling of unity , colonies often split in two : the Three Counties separated from the bulk of Pennsylvania to become Delaware , and Carolina was reorganized as two separate administrations . |
| 26 | The treaty was never implemented , however , perhaps because the French could not raise the first instalment of the ransom in the six months specified , and in May 1359 the ‘ Second Treaty of London ’ was concluded . |
| 27 | Perhaps because the company in which I have spent most of my industrial life is scientifically based , we have a passion for perfection . |
| 28 | Sadly , the standards of consent actually achieved on the ward often fall short of those expected by lawyers , perhaps because the task of obtaining consent is left to more junior medical staff , who are themselves ignorant of many of the potential pitfalls that might face the patient . |
| 29 | This is perhaps because the infant 's relation with its mother is disturbed when the child begins to perceive its father as another figure in the family . |
| 30 | The work does not offer quite the same opportunities for an indulgent emotional approach , perhaps because the prevalence of the march motto-theme keeps conductors nearer to the straight and narrow . |