Example sentences of "because they had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kingston match had a similar pattern , except that England batted first because they had been put in by Lloyd . |
| 2 | Children who did not want to grow up haunted Kensington gardens because they had been happy there . |
| 3 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 4 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 5 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 6 | After tea , if he was in the mood , the chiropractor would go out and shoot starlings in his garden , because they had been introduced from Europe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 11 | When an exasperated Bassett eventually did tell them to shut up , two of them immediately demanded police action because THEY had been offended and an investigation ensued . |
| 12 | Arsenal supporters travelled from London because they had been unable to get tickets from Highbury . |
| 13 | I watched , amazed , as children who had been brought into care because they had been abused , ran with open arms to hug the ‘ abusing ’ parents who had been allowed to visit them . |
| 14 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 15 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 16 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 17 | Recall that in 1964 the developing countries used their voting power in the UN to call the first United Nations Conference of Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , because they had been frustrated by the rules operating in the GATT . |
| 18 | Three other officials of the Old Kingdom came to be venerated as gods because they had been wise , good and successful . |
| 19 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 20 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 21 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 22 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 23 | In most cases of detinue there would be a concurrent liability in conversion based upon a demand and refusal to return but as we have seen conversion required a positive act and had never lain where the defendant once had the plaintiff 's goods but was unable to return them because they had been lost or negligently destroyed . |
| 24 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 25 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 26 | They had n't arrived yet , because they had been held up in the traffic , but they would be along in time for an early lunch . |
| 27 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 28 | We heard that some bishops had sent on training courses in preparation for ordination people who could not be ordained because they had been divorced and were remarried . |
| 29 | It was because they had been rich and important for so long , generation after generation , rather than just since the invention of the power loom and the spinning frame , like her John-William . |
| 30 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |