Example sentences of "because they [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it .
2 Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ?
3 And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving .
4 erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that
5 Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds .
6 And those who go into the situation with their eyes wide open because they 've been trained how to handle emergencies with calm and confidence .
7 Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about .
8 He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it .
9 One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors .
10 They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days .
11 He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’
12 Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that .
13 So , we 'll forget all that , and we 'll just assume that what Freud really meant , was that people have sense of guilt because they 've been socialized to have it .
14 Already because they 've been approved by the board .
15 A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things .
16 Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years .
17 There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er .
18 Because they 've been pressured into an opinion on one particular aspect of their letter .
19 ‘ Only because they 've been bathed . ’
20 Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that .
21 ‘ We 've lost many of our localised products because they 've been taken over by multi-nationals .
22 Cheesemakers have already stopped using traditional dyes like carrot or beetroot juice because they 've been banned .
23 He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence .
24 And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it .
25 They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain .
26 The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage .
27 That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else
28 Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) .
29 I watched , amazed , as children who had been brought into care because they had been abused , ran with open arms to hug the ‘ abusing ’ parents who had been allowed to visit them .
30 But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 .
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