Example sentences of "[be] because [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively it may have been because a rising number of night visits , increasingly performed before 1990 by deputies , increases health service expenditure as the cost of deputies is eventually reimbursed in the expense element of general practitioner remuneration . |
| 2 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 5 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 6 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 7 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 8 | Last September Mrs McIvor reported that complaints had dropped by 25pc , but that the reduction may have been because the public is not fully aware of her work . |
| 9 | It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief . |
| 10 | It could n't have been because the pub was busy , it was more likely she 'd just forgotten where the phone was . |
| 11 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 12 | The slightly higher RNR levels for elderly married couples and for men living alone than for women living alone are because the women have less income from paid employment and from occupational pensions . |
| 13 | ‘ But if you do n't know , how can you be sure when you 're really in love and when you just think you are because the person you 're with is so attractive ? ’ |
| 14 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 15 | But may this not be because a society is an organic whole and the members could not live these lives except in it ? |
| 16 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 17 | Our failure to find a difference between cholecystectomy and gall stone subjects could , in theory , be because a high proportion of the second group having a non-functioning gall bladder as , from the physiological standpoint , a non-functional gall bladder is equivalent to cholecystectomy . |
| 18 | This may be because no one likes to admit they have been fooled or because many German records relating to their intelligence operations against Britain were amongst the captured archives not returned to Bonn in 1956 . |
| 19 | This may be because no formal teaching sessions took place , and no specific assessment of skills occurred . |
| 20 | This may be because no solution , or only a temporary solution has been found , or because the desired solution has not yet been implemented . |
| 21 | We covered this earlier and it may be because the coach feels that you are not capable of performing well under the pressure of an actual competition . |
| 22 | For older people just over half the refusals for grants are reported to be because the basic criteria are not satisfied . |
| 23 | This might be because the people to whom they apply are encountered only infrequently in the course of police work . |
| 24 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 25 | This may be because the ‘ classic ’ factories of the twentieth century tend to be low-rise , usually single-storey structures , built to very broad plans from cheap and impermanent materials . |
| 26 | This may be because the GP 's previous contact with the family facilitated such contact or that a balance to the GP 's assessment was sought . |
| 27 | This may be because the majority of secondary schools are in urban areas and have been less affected by the war . |
| 28 | If teachers can be encouraged to clarify their thinking and make learning more varied and fun for the children — sharpening and deepening thinking , then this will be because the head has taken the staff along an analytical path that actually raises the level of efficiency and excitement in the classroom . |
| 29 | Structures tested so far have lacked significant shows ; according to Kamerling ( 1979 ) this may be because the formation of the traps was later then the main period of hydrocarbon generation . |
| 30 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |