Example sentences of "[be] because [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the previous studies have not demonstrated any simple relationship between previous knowledge of junctions and memory performance , this may have been because multiple exemplars of each junction were presented in the recognition studies . |
| 2 | This could hardly have been because large ears suited the climate ( there are strong offshore winds ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This may be because low staff turnover creates less need for induction and job training and more need for development training or it may be that job training is more likely to be taken for granted . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , a further argument for public support of R & d may be because private firms realize they will not be able to appropriate for themselves all the benefits of their efforts . |
| 6 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 7 | The proportion of the population screened was higher in rural areas ( 1.1% ) than in urban areas ( 0.6% ) and this may be because urban diabetic patients were more likely to attend a hospital diabetic clinic . |
| 8 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 9 | Alternatively , it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity . |
| 10 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 11 | This is because regular continuous aerobic exercise like brisk walking is a fat burning activity whereas start-stop anaerobic exercises like squash and tennis are carbohydrate burning activities . |
| 12 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 13 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 14 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 15 | This is because variable scribal usage is likely to be functional in some way , just as spoken variation is functional ( as suggested in chapter 2 ) , and the most immediately obvious function of an alphabetic writing system is to relate writing to speech-forms , however complicated this relationship may be . |
| 16 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
| 17 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 18 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 19 | This is because implicit in the calculation of the yield to maturity as the internal rate of return is the assumption that each coupon payment as it arises is reinvested at the internal rate of return . |
| 20 | This is because good control is reached at a much lower ground speed . |
| 21 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |
| 22 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 23 | This is because economic and monetary union will cause a very complex chain of reactions : the systemic changes will lead to policy changes , and both will condition behavioural changes in the economy , before arriving at the final impacts in terms of economic well-being ’ . |
| 24 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 25 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 26 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 27 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 28 | This is because current connectionist networks must duplicate all the nodes and connections for each unit in the system in order to represent temporal aspects of the problem . |
| 29 | This is because other techniques , by themselves , are either inadequate ( eg pump-and-treat ) , do not permanently solve the problem ( eg immobilisation or containment ) , or have the potential to be very expensive ( eg incineration ) . |
| 30 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |