Example sentences of "because they have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 2 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 3 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 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 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 8 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 9 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 10 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
| 11 | By the same logic , can it be right to send people to prison because they have been found guilty of drunkenness , vagrancy , offences related to prostitution , and drug offences ( of whom there were nearly 900 men and 100 women in 1981 ) ? |