Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 2 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 3 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 4 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 7 | In the official view , the use of the Swiss timer pointed clearly to Libya , not only because it had been supplied to its security agency in the first place , but because the PFLP — GC favoured a barometric-pressure triggering system for its Toshiba bombs . |
| 8 | Rostov knew that the Simonova was underway only because he had been advised of the fact by the voder of the ship 's information system . |
| 9 | Her family was understandably distressed at her problems , especially because they had been told that the situation would gradually get better , and in fact it had got progressively worse . |
| 10 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 11 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 12 | Professor Hoskins was particularly interested in the Banbury Lane , largely because it had been identified as a prehistoric trackway by archaeologists in the 1950s , shortly before he wrote this book . |
| 13 | It had been a tiring day , largely because it had been so unproductive . |
| 14 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 15 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
| 16 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 17 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 18 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 19 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 20 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 21 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 22 | The week had gone quickly because she had been busy . |
| 23 | The Campaign had not been successful in influencing the Trade Unions , possibly because it had been officially characterized as an individual agitation by a few wealthy members . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s , the European steel industry had an enormous over-capacity , partly because it had been undercut by Korean , Japanese , and other producers in the Pacific , partly because of a wave of added Italian steel capacity in the 1970s . |
| 25 | ( Probably because she had been in and out of Charley 's so freely at this time , working on her portfolio . ) |
| 26 | Clelia worked there because she painted : also because her parents pulled strings : also because she had been to art school : also because she had some highly inexplicit connexion with Martin . |
| 27 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 28 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure I shall now , ’ Peony thought , the more bitterly because she had been repressing her disappointment . |
| 30 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |