Example sentences of "because they have [adv] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 2 | Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , any account of the undergraduate curriculum has to address such issues , not because the questions must be asked , but because they have already been answered — in the institutional , professional and curricular structures that exist — and these answers must be examined . |
| 4 | But a very tiny proportion will germinate , either because they are washed from the tree by rain , brushed out by the actions of wild creatures or even because they have not been fertilised . |
| 5 | This is not , as Young ( 1981 : 328 ) asserts , because they are ‘ well calculated to be ineffective ’ , but rather because they have not been framed with a crucial issue in mind — how far can a national state regulatory agency effect the operations of a transnational corporation , particularly when its parental state is one of the two world imperialist powers ? |
| 6 | Of these , nearly 8,000 children die because they have not been immunised , nearly 7,000 from dehydration caused by diarrhoea , and nearly as many again from pneumonia . |
| 7 | Sadly , some dogs pass through several homes in quite rapid succession , possibly because they have not been house-trained or may be highly-strung and bark continually . |
| 8 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 9 | There will be no representative of any foreign communist party at the event , not even Moscow 's man , because they have not been invited . |
| 10 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 11 | Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals . |
| 12 | After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended : |
| 13 | That immediately excludes about a quarter of our youngsters on the dole , because they have never been trained . |
| 14 | Some readers have grown accustomed to reading/watching/eating shit because they have never been offered anything else . |
| 15 | Still others throw themselves on the mercy of God without being able to name the name of Christ because they have never been told about him . |
| 16 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 17 | The referendum or plebiscite is a device viewed with suspicion in some quarters , largely because they have often been used to ratify or endorse decisions already taken or policies already embarked on , as was the case with Britain 's entry into the EEC , or because they have been staged , and the issue presented , in such a way as to produce the outcome wanted by the government which initiates them . |
| 18 | Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication . |
| 19 | Eventually , after many cycles , the concentration of oligonucleotide primers falls because they have all been incorporated into products of the reaction . |