Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the last time I used my LSI because I 've actually been ill since I got back — a touch of the Peruvian tummy-bug , which has put things out of the question ever since |
| 2 | ‘ His age is not a problem because I 've never been afraid to take a gamble on players and he could give us another option . ’ |
| 3 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 4 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 5 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 6 | Because there had never been enough of anything to go around , and never would be . |
| 7 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 8 | He did that because they had not only annoying his neighbours , sorry , their neighbours , because he had once been one of our neighbours , but also they had damaged his house , and they had already cost him probably about two hundred pounds in repair bills until the house itself , broken doors , window erm the wall , and bit of the roof and so on , and there was every reason to believe that this would just carry on . |
| 9 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 10 | Erm he has nothing at all because he 's never been married to you . |
| 11 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 12 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 13 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 14 | One investigator who has put weight on the relationship with affective , rather than schizophrenic , disorder is the American psychiatrist , Andreasen , whose work , also carried out within a partly genetics context , is of particular interest here because it has mainly been concerned with writers . |