Example sentences of "be [adj] because [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to believe they are right because they have played such an important part in our identity and in defining the world for us . |
| 2 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 3 | Some countries are rich because they have oil or copper or iron . |
| 4 | Otherwise probably that 's why they are dear because they have to do things like that . |
| 5 | Well , they 're different because they have them they 're really controlled by a man in a signal box so they 're |
| 6 | Other " secondary " drugs of choice are cross-addictive because they have similar but not such marked effects as the primary drug of choice for that particular sufferer . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ The fans have been frustrated because we have n't scored but all we can do is to try and put it right . |
| 8 | Their terms of trade are unusual because they have , thus far , little control of income ( mostly fees ) or expenditure ( mostly salaries ) , but they sell a service to the public . |
| 9 | The rural poor are poor because they have been prevented from using resources available to others , such as credit , land , technology and social services . |
| 10 | For example , aspects of the time and place of the discourse in ( 5 ) are important because they have a bearing on what the speaker says in the fragment ( forty years after the described event took place , but still in Stornoway ) . |
| 11 | I emphasise that we believe , as my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State has said , that top-up fees should be unnecessary because we have planned , and continue to plan , to provide sufficient public funding to support the expansion of high-quality teaching in our universities . |
| 12 | Most will be empty because they have been repossessed from mortgage defaulters . |
| 13 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 14 | People will not be exempt because they have a physical disability . |
| 15 | I 'm hungry because I have n't had lunch . |
| 16 | And you should be happy because you have made your sale , given your customers credit , and avoided giving it yourself . |
| 17 | I have known patients to be worried because they have on occasion fallen asleep while practising — but in fact this does not matter . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes I am proud because I have the King 's ear , but our royal master is a devious , sly man . |
| 19 | We believe that the amendments are vital because we have never been told officially the price of any of the bus companies . |
| 20 | I am worried because I have been : in contact with polio/on a blind in Paris/reading the Readers Digest . |
| 21 | ‘ I come across as being intolerant because I have a different sense of what is important these days . |
| 22 | ( Such signals are deictic because they have the distinctive relativity of reference , being anchored to the discourse location of the current utterance . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | your previous home is empty because you have gone to live with someone else to provide personal care because they are elderly , ill or disabled |
| 25 | your previous home is empty because you have gone to live with someone else in order to receive personal care due to your age , illness or disability . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Using estate agents to do this work is dangerous because they have a vested interest in giving high property values . ’ |
| 27 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 28 | There is one other point , although erm you know , it 's good that they are in the er areas which the tenants er , live so it 's er not very difficult for tenants to come and see their councillors but er er , there is a difficulty at times when er the er air the housing manager has to ring around to get the er members , who are able to sit on that panel and sometimes that is difficult because we have just three members and sometimes they ca n't all fit in the , whereas when you have a larger group if one member ca n't attend , there 's invariably sufficient there to be able to come to a decision so I think that that 's on the other side of the balance sheet . |
| 29 | For example , distinction between calcite and dolomite is difficult because they have similar optical properties . |
| 30 | When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals . |