Example sentences of "because they [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the whole , I 've been fairly lucky with them , so my views are n't formed because they 've been absolutely horrible to me . |
| 2 | because they 've been so much more technology , you know , since it 's started |
| 3 | ‘ Often you do n't realise the sheer range of functions of a good company secretary or administrator until they leave , because they 've been so efficient , ’ said Mr Sheppard . |
| 4 | Third , it would be disagreeable for the Serbs , who , because they have been largely untested , have yet to show themselves to be a fighting force with much mettle . |
| 5 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 6 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 7 | A small proportion of people develop a headache after lumbar puncture but this is usually because they have been too active too soon after the test . |
| 8 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |