Example sentences of "because [pron] had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was upset because I had not been allowed to rest on the drive . |
| 2 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 3 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 4 | Meredith delved in her plastic bag and produced a bottle of wine and — because she had not been sure whether her hostess drank — a box of chocolates . |
| 5 | She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat . |
| 6 | Guilt because she had not been there to stop Jamie losing control . |
| 7 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 8 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 9 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 10 | When forty-two railway-workers who defected from Syzran' station were put on trial , their sentence was alleviated because they had not been paid . |
| 11 | It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death . |
| 12 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 13 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 14 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
| 15 | Paisley had broken with Kilfedder because he had not been sufficiently outspoken in his criticism of O'Neill . |
| 16 | Through all the vicissitudes of history , the crown came to embody Hungarian nationality and the Kingship remained elective , so that it was still possible for Hungarians in 1860 to deny Francis Joseph sovereignty because he had not been crowned with the crown of St Stephen . |
| 17 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 18 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 19 | For a song , too , because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back , meeting a valuer , walking about the house , picking things off shelves and out of cupboards . |
| 20 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 21 | But he was already a fallen idol in Patricia 's eyes , all because he had not been able to deny himself a sentimental gesture before leaving . |
| 22 | The body had not been identified as Stavanger 's — though , when I came to think of it , there was no reason why it should be , because he had not been reported missing . |
| 23 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 24 | ( But there was always the sudden stab at his heart when he reasoned thus , because he had not been born to it ! ) |
| 25 | Finally , the Home Secretary will recall that , at the time of the Brixton escape fiasco , he claimed that no blame attached to him because he had not been consulted . |
| 26 | In Asia , the miracle rice was wiped out in many areas because it had not been treated with the necessary chemicals . |
| 27 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 28 | Very like its living counterpart still , because it had not been in the river very long . |
| 29 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 30 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |