Example sentences of "be [adv] because [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 2 | A Greenpeace spokesman commented : " Tuna sales are up because dolphin-friendly labels lead to massive complacency by making people think the problem has been solved . |
| 3 | This is assumed to be largely because such events are rare and distinctive . |
| 4 | to be soon because that 's already |
| 5 | She said : ‘ Everybody else says they are very pleased to be here in fact I am very relieved to be here because another TV station was at my home in Dumfriesshire this morning to try to speak to me and I am thankfully in London so I missed them . ’ |
| 6 | Do you like to be there because other people like to be there ? |
| 7 | They are where sex and class meet — the women are there because domestic violence , like rape , is something men do to women , not because they 're mad or homicidal maniacs , but as an expression of ordinary domestic conflict between unequals . |
| 8 | This is all because middle-class people , the polls say , want to see the rich suffer first . |
| 9 | It 's all because this bridge is being replaced . |
| 10 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 11 | This is not because such explanations are ‘ wrong ’ , but because they are incomplete or inadequate . |
| 12 | It is not because stout Egyptians are being suborned by wicked Iranians and Sudanese , as the regime would have the world believe . |
| 13 | This is not because young women are status conscious . |
| 14 | Well there is not because that does n't seem to right |
| 15 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 16 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 17 | This is largely because human readers use an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process . |
| 18 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 19 | This is probably because small birds need less food , ( Condition refers to stored energy , in the form of fat deposits ; Petrie used a complicated measure of condition to get rid of the effects of size alone . |
| 20 | If strong stemming does not seem to introduce too much noise in reference retrieval searching this is probably because typical searches include , explicitly or implicitly , at least three words and often more . |
| 21 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 22 | The previous report of copper concentrations in gastric juice represents a fivefold overestimate : we found low concentrations only ( mean=1.2 n> M and this is probably because most plasma copper ( ca 80–90% is tightly bound to the plasma protein caeruloplasmin . |
| 23 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 24 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 25 | This is partly because private hospitals select simpler cases but may also reflect the lack of incentives to reduce admissions and length of stay in public hospitals and the absence of adequate community care for the impoverished populations which tend to use them . |
| 26 | This is partly because molecular electronic spectra are very different from the line-spectra of atoms , consisting in most cases of broad bands , and partly because the spectra are usually very complicated , so that assignment is often impossible . |
| 27 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
| 28 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 29 | This is partly because most students take no theory examinations except Grade V , a required precondition for sitting O level music in the old days . |
| 30 | This is partly because single status at younger ages appears to have been consistently even more lethal for men than for women . |