Example sentences of "be [conj] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't really be because of a home movie , could it ? |
| 2 | This may be because of a scarcity of suitable sites , but the great number of individuals present makes it possible for unmated young birds to help their parents in the labour of digging holes just as the young Florida scrub jays help their parents rear new broods . |
| 3 | Anyone who has heard it will declare that this is but of a piece with all the rest ! ’ |
| 4 | But if the the reason this has occurred is because of a poverty amongst rich countries rich people which is causing poverty amongst poor people which is material . |
| 5 | Leaders of the Colombian Federation of Teachers ( FECODE ) , believe this is because of a shift in policy in the early 1980s , when union members started to challenge educational policy instead of confining themselves to labour demands . |
| 6 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 7 | Right , now we 're way behind here , and I suspect it 's because of a lot of chattering . |
| 8 | It should be er finished by about 8.30 this evening , so you should be alright after then , but until 8.00 tonight , Wokingham Road at Reading will be closed er that 's because of a bust gas main so allow some extra time for your journey . |
| 9 | When I looked back I realized it was because of a hurt from when I was younger-I had protruding teeth and was the only child in my school at the time to wear braces . |
| 10 | The reason , I suspect , that the postmodern avant-garde of the 1920s did not have greater social effects was because of a delinkage or desynchronization of the cultural and the social . |
| 11 | O'Toole always refused to say why and when he stopped drinking , but denied that it was because of a stomach operation he underwent . |
| 12 | It was because of a rebellion that the young Boniface had been sent as Ine 's envoy to the archbishop of Canterbury c . |
| 13 | He suggests that this was because of a dispute over the carrying of the Irish tricolour ; the NILP would not march with it and the republicans would not march without it . |