Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 2 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 3 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 4 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 5 | Again , the suggestion has been made that in cases where a woman 's SB is withdrawn because she is found/thought to be cohabiting , a ‘ tiding over ’ allowance should be made to ease the adjustment . |
| 6 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 7 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 8 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 9 | As early as September 1953 Eisenhower was to be found ruminating , " Abroad we and our intentions are suspect because we are known to be big and wealthy , and believed to be impulsive and truculent . " |
| 10 | We 're here because we 're suited to being here . |
| 11 | The issue is not whether such factors will in some way be represented , because they are bound to be , but whether they are in pedagogic focus . |
| 12 | Male carers are often omitted from detailed study because they are seen to be unimportant or assumed to be so few in number . |
| 13 | The consequence of this is that women are feared because they are seen to be sexually aggressive , and relations with men are spoiled because a close tie to them , which might otherwise constitute a conflict-free alternative nevertheless connotes a parallel threat of passive dependency . |
| 14 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |
| 15 | The unstated part of the equation is that they must be tough on the Vietnamese boat people because they are poised to be tough on Hong Kong 's own claims to British passports . |
| 16 | Social security officers can discriminate negatively because they are encouraged to be vigilant to prevent fraud and abuse . |
| 17 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 18 | Similarly , normal copying programs which come with a computer operating system are within the law because they are designed to be used legitimately , to take back-up copies of programs and data files . |
| 19 | Too often , however , such ideas may fail to have the desired effect because they are found to be ‘ inappropriate ’ in some way . |
| 20 | Any proposals for road and rail investment in the South East must satisfy the government 's general criteria and will not be approved simply because they are deemed to be necessary adjuncts to the tunnel . |
| 21 | Who should inspect the schools for councils but ex-teachers , because they are deemed to be the only people properly qualified ? |
| 22 | When black youth did appear it was often because they were seen to be a problem . |
| 23 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 24 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 25 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 26 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 27 | ( Because they were thought to be able to change their form at will , the accused were branded ‘ shape shifters ’ ) . |
| 28 | Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector . |
| 29 | English vessels were unpopular among shippers because they were judged to be incompetently run . |
| 30 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |