Example sentences of "because [pron] have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe they all felt OK because no-one had been shot in a park . |
| 2 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've smiled before , because I 've been forced to , and now we 've had three hit singles I 'll smile when I fuckin' want to . ’ |
| 4 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 6 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to make the story as individual and as real as I can , and if possible to approach without any preconceptions , which is hard with Swan Lake because I have been associated with the ballet for 14 years . |
| 8 | Is the Minister confident that when information is no longer relevant , because somebody has been convicted of the offence , the information relating to other people is removed as soon as possible ? |
| 9 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 10 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 11 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 12 | I received a call from another constituent who was frightened because she had been slapped with not one warrant sale but two , yet she had paid her poll tax . |
| 13 | Killer Clare was looking after Cathy because she had been employed by a home care agency which had n't checked her references — though she was wanted for arson . |
| 14 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 15 | Because she had been exposed to the luxury end of the market , much of what she found at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ appalled her . |
| 16 | In a second case the single mother of four-year-old Graham Garlick was refused on the same grounds , because she had been evicted by Greater Manchester council for rent arrears of £150 . |
| 17 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 18 | A parliamentary candidate has branded a football club as sexist because she 's been barred from a men-only dinner . |
| 19 | In the first place she is anxious because she has been taken from her companions and familiar environment , and placed in a foreign country . |
| 20 | From one point of view this is a defiant retreat into the ‘ utterly other discourse ’ ( 5,15,143 ) of Cassandra who yields to her penchant for lexical distortion because she has been forced into an impossible position . |
| 21 | For one of Karl Barth 's disposition it could never be said that because something has been perceived to be natural by humankind , therefore it is the will of God . |
| 22 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 23 | ‘ We are now downright scared because we have been pushed into a confrontation not only with the police but also with the military , ’ Harris says . |
| 24 | Because we have been created in his image , he is the source of our personhood . |
| 25 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 26 | However we do n't always acknowledge them in ourselves , perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience . |
| 27 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 28 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 29 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 30 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |