Example sentences of "been [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 2 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 3 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 4 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 5 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 6 | Southport 's rally in support of the miners has been postponed because it clashed with the regional rally at St Helens . |
| 7 | That has been provided because it does not require planning permission . |
| 8 | Michael Heseltine , the Trade and Industry Secretary , said the decision had been taken because it had become ‘ virtually impossible ’ for UK insurers to obtain reinsurance protection against ‘ terrorism-related claims ’ . |
| 9 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |