Example sentences of "because we have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 2 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 3 | I said , it hurt the captain because we 've been used to you know , ferrying everybody about , and I said , do n't d say that people are unkind because they they 're not taking you and carrying you about . |
| 4 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 5 | If you 've snapped up one our handsome binders you 'll find , towards the end of the year , that because we 've been able to pack so many pages into Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine , things are getting , well , rather full . |
| 6 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 7 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |