Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] because [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires ; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them ! ’ |
| 2 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 3 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 4 | England tour manager Bob Bennett said : ‘ He has been selected because we feel his experience will be an advantage to the side in this particular game . ’ |
| 5 | Please note that , whilst the above are not actual statements made by a serious accident victim , they have been selected because we believe they give a fair representation of the kind of problems which may occur after an accident . |
| 6 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 7 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't want to be healed because it means you do n't have to justify running away . ’ |
| 9 | The retributivist principle — that wrongdoers should be punished because they deserve it — is in some ways the complete antithesis of reductivism . |
| 10 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 11 | We deserve to be punished because we considered ourselves over and above the deceased . |
| 12 | Only , to say that I I I would be opposed because I believe you should delegate to committees to run their affairs and their resources in the way they want to . |
| 13 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 14 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |
| 15 | If the criterion of relevance is adhered to the research worker knows why information is being collected because he knows what it will be used for . |
| 16 | Several of the care assistants working at the homes were angered because they claimed they were not told what was happening . |
| 17 | More than 600 people a day die of a heart attack in the UK and many lives are lost because no-one knows what to do in an emergency . |
| 18 | I had been lost because I loved him . |
| 19 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 20 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 21 | Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach . |
| 22 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's this wretched love business — and I still think that Kemp was killed because he had one too many fancy woman . ’ |