Example sentences of "it [be] because [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Perhaps it is because six-time major-winner Lee Trevino shares a background with his caddie Willie Aitchison that the two have developed such a close relationship over the years . |
6 | It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view . |
7 | It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey . |
8 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
9 | ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . ) |
10 | It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology . |
11 | ‘ If I look pale as a lily , 't is because fresh air is too rarely on the menu . |
12 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |
13 | According to the radical Right , it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy … . |
14 | If ideas as such were discounted , it was because imaginative literature , in its richness and blend of diversity and harmony , had other things to offer . |