Example sentences of "because they have [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dictator ( to look at one of Keith Graham 's examples ) who allowed everyone to decide for themselves what they wanted and then told them what they must do , is violating their autonomy not because their wants and needs are not realised in action , but because they have been coerced into doing something they do not want . |
| 2 | The rural poor are poor because they have been prevented from using resources available to others , such as credit , land , technology and social services . |
| 3 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 4 | Most will be empty because they have been repossessed from mortgage defaulters . |
| 5 | In the meantime , however , many old breeds have already become extinct , largely because they have been absorbed by other breeds . |
| 6 | In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress . |
| 7 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 8 | Such terrors are more likely to affect foals and yearlings because they have been exposed to fewer objects and experiences . |
| 9 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 10 | Some of the entries in the archive are marked as being obsolete , either because they represent Supplement entries which have been incorporated into earlier OED entries , or because they have been discarded by lexicographers and are not to be included in the New OED . |
| 11 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 12 | Within the domain of a particular discourse fragment are the people , places , entities , events , facts , etc. already activated for both participants because they have been mentioned in the preceding conversation . |
| 13 | We hope that the Government will listen reasonably to them , because they have been tabled in a reasonable frame of mind and do not make party political points . |
| 14 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 15 | They are unpopular with teenage mothers , however , either because they do n't see the importance of going , or sometimes because they have been deterred by their experiences at classes where the other mothers are older and married . |
| 16 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 17 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 18 | A number of dimensions of child rearing emerged from this material , and of these two are worth special mention because they have been found by other investigators too . |
| 19 | The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen . |
| 20 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |