Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 2 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 3 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 4 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 5 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 6 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 7 | When black youth did appear it was often because they were seen to be a problem . |
| 8 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 9 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 10 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 11 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 12 | ( Because they were thought to be able to change their form at will , the accused were branded ‘ shape shifters ’ ) . |
| 13 | Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector . |
| 14 | English vessels were unpopular among shippers because they were judged to be incompetently run . |
| 15 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 16 | Even so , in Roman days diamonds had a far greater monetary value than gold , because they were reputed to be indestructible , and , more important , they would safeguard their wearer against a whole range of misfortunes , from poison to madness . |
| 17 | Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man . |
| 18 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 19 | A really educated man , if you if anyone had any forms to fill in er it was the postman you invariably went to , because he was considered to be , he could read and write you see . |
| 20 | This was a crucial consideration , especially for the unskilled , because it was seen to be their only asset . |
| 21 | It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world . |
| 22 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |
| 23 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 24 | Lyons agreed to run a tea pavilion at the Newcastle jubilee exhibition of 1887 , and to use his name , because it was felt to be beneath the dignity of the Salmon and Gluckstein families to go into catering . |
| 25 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 26 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 27 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 28 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 29 | The name is taken from the Greek reuo , to set free , because it was thought to be effective in so many ailments . |
| 30 | The Government initiated proceedings against Mr Marsh in September last year , but after a lengthy delay while he unsuccessfully tried to obtain legal aid , the case was dropped because it was judged to be ‘ no longer in the public interest ’ . |