Example sentences of "be there because " in BNC.
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| 31 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 32 | But if one sixth of patients are in hospital as a result of what we 've done wrong , five sixths are there because we have n't managed to stop them being there . |
| 33 | ‘ Most people on waiting lists are there because treatment is not urgent , ’ he said . |
| 34 | The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged . |
| 35 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 36 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 37 | ‘ Good idea , ’ Dad replied with a twinkle in his eye : he knew why they were there because he went out and fetched them in and later took them back himself . |
| 38 | ‘ There 's always some police by the Circus , ’ I knew they were there because of the Jewish population around the area — and the frequent Mosley British Fascist parades . |
| 39 | But the overwhelming majority of the palace 's clients when I was in the North-East were local men , and nearly half — the biggest single category — were there because their own homes had been disbanded . |
| 40 | We wer were there because we wanted to be there . |
| 41 | Some were there because , well , elsewhere they would starve . |
| 42 | ‘ Even when they 're in England you get used to them not being there because of the matches they play for their county . ’ |
| 43 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 44 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 45 | The cobbler 's song in Hassan is there because man invented a shoe . |
| 46 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 47 | Some is there because owners did not pass on new addresses when they moved . |
| 48 | Much of what is often praised in broadcasting is there because of a regulatory structure which encourages diversity in programming . |
| 49 | The dike is there because in 1749 a particularly intrusive tidal wave swamped and destroyed some 200 houses in this otherwise favoured quarter of the town . |
| 50 | Its the , the market is there because people want it and this about er , I think its just too easy to say that people are mislead by them . |
| 51 | So the plastic is there because it 's a good insulator . |
| 52 | I , I 'm looking to see if Dr 's there because if he were me , or if I was him , I would say what the commissioner alleges is neither known nor admitted . |
| 53 | ‘ But we know it 's there because of the Principle ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I know he 's there because I ca n't imagine him , ’ explained Lydia patiently . |
| 55 | They do n't know he 's there because the wind is howling so loudly . |
| 56 | It 's there because you grew up with it and you 're exposed to it and it turns you on . ’ |
| 57 | I mean the textface , which is Nimrod , is a drawing office typeface and a printer 's typeface , and it 's there because , I do n't know , it |
| 58 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 59 | She told him it was there because of the air-raids in the war and even now , in 1951 , there were special reasons why it must never be removed . |
| 60 | I was there because Karen had brought me . |