Example sentences of "because it [verb] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s , the European steel industry had an enormous over-capacity , partly because it had been undercut by Korean , Japanese , and other producers in the Pacific , partly because of a wave of added Italian steel capacity in the 1970s . |
| 3 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 4 | It is not credible that the Court of Appeal would refuse to quash a conviction in the context of a referral on the ground that the conviction was inviolable because it had been restored by the House of Lords in the original proceedings . |
| 5 | On inquiring about the matter , I was told that the health common services authority had decided to move to the bay because it had been told by an independent property consultancy that it was a much better choice of location than anywhere else . |
| 6 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 7 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 8 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 9 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 10 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 11 | One could argue pop has declined not because it has been infiltrated by a counter-cultural message , but because of the demise of the Sixties counter-culture . |