Example sentences of "[adj] because they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most will be empty because they have been repossessed from mortgage defaulters . |
| 2 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 3 | The rural poor are poor because they have been prevented from using resources available to others , such as credit , land , technology and social services . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 6 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The Kingston match had a similar pattern , except that England batted first because they had been put in by Lloyd . |
| 9 | Although pressed flowers are basically only two-dimensional because they have been flattened , it is quite possible to use several of the thicker ones to build up a good three-dimensional effect . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |