Example sentences of "been [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the modish concept of " proto-industrialisation " ( above pp. 4 – 5 ) has led to a dominant image of women 's work as having been hidden because in rural cottage manufacturing it , as with the work of children , was subsumed in a family unit of production in which it was neither separately waged nor described . |
| 2 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 3 | A modified version of the southern mountain route has been examined because of the resolution . |
| 4 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 5 | And er the all-nighters have been stopped because of it . |
| 6 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 7 | Indeed , when the film came out in 1971 , it was preceded by a clever advertising campaign suggesting that release had been delayed because the makers felt the movie was too dangerous for general viewing . |
| 8 | The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding . |
| 9 | The remaining work has been delayed because of problems encountered with the render and the removal of the existing paint . |
| 10 | His visit , the first by a senior East European official since the collapse of communism there , had been delayed because of political turmoil in China and Poland , according to a Polish official . |
| 11 | Although this plan had the endorsement of Serbian leaders including Slobodan Milosevic , the President of Serbia , the troop dispatch had been delayed because Milan Babic , leader of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Republic of Krajina " within Croatian territory [ see p. 38685 ] , rejected the idea of the deployment of UN forces in ethnically mixed areas of Croatia , conceding only that they should be stationed on the front line between Serbian and Croatian forces . |
| 12 | This had been delayed because of the November 1991 general election [ see p. 38589 ] and the resulting political uncertainty . |
| 13 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 14 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 15 | Teachers and other academics have been persecuted because of their chosen area of research . |
| 16 | Their heightened expectations for educational progress had not been realised because of low investment and poor management . |
| 17 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 18 | The number of bidders on AFCAC 300 is thought to have been limited because of the amount of money needed to pursue it . |
| 19 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 20 | The Vulcans have recently been withdrawn because of their age . |
| 21 | Subsequently , one of the three , Francesco Di Maggio , in a television appearance , suggested that they had been withdrawn because they were getting too close to identifying links between the Mafia and establishment figures . |
| 22 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 23 | The Crown Prosecution Service in Gloucester is saying only that the charges have been withdrawn because their was n't enough evidence . |
| 24 | Night-time bus services are to resume on a council estate where they 'd been withdrawn because of gang attacks . |
| 25 | Nine players — Goram , McPherson , Robertson , McCall , Durrant and McCoist ( all Rangers ) , McStay ( Celtic ) , McLeish ( Aberdeen ) and Malpas ( Dundee United ) — have been withdrawn because of injury . |
| 26 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 27 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
| 28 | Nobbs argues that the problem has been compounded because the government has n't issued any planning advice to guide the industry . |
| 29 | Leaves are much hardier and will stand any amount of bad treatment , but having said that do n't try pressing damaged or nibbled leaves in the hope that they will look better once they have been pressed because they wo n't ! |
| 30 | Like many readers before and since , the author of The Cloud identified Mary the contemplative with Mary Magdalene and with the woman who had anointed the feet of Christ , washed them with her tears and who was told by Jesus that her sins had been forgiven because of her great love . |