Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm never late for things , I try really hard to be late , but I just ca n't be because we were told off so much about it . |
| 2 | It 's supposed to be dead , but it ca n't be because — look ! the tendon is moving slightly , the muscle 's quivering . |
| 3 | Now that ca n't be because I was that much better at maths because I 'm not I mean |
| 4 | I said what do you mean sh oh I did n't mean it like that I meant she ca n't be because I like her . |
| 5 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 6 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 7 | And all of this can only be because you are very wicked indeed . |
| 8 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
| 9 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 10 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 11 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 12 | But if you do , even though the evidence seems stacked against me , it can only be because you love me too , for that 's the only thing that could overcome a mistrust as deeply rooted as yours . ’ |
| 13 | " This can only be because operators think that levels of toxic waste imports will go on increasing " . |
| 14 | It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate . |