Example sentences of "[noun pl] be there because " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people on waiting lists are there because treatment is not urgent , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ You can tell the Queen and all the Royals are there because the flag 's up the pole . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 4 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 5 | The reformulations are there because there is a ferment of thought in process , demanding words . |
| 6 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 7 | For example , nearly one-quarter of people in prison are there because they were unable to pay their fine , others are there because of ‘ consenting ’ sex below the age of consent , drug addiction , being drunk and disorderly , or begging abroad . |
| 8 | They are where sex and class meet — the women are there because domestic violence , like rape , is something men do to women , not because they 're mad or homicidal maniacs , but as an expression of ordinary domestic conflict between unequals . |
| 9 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |