Example sentences of "because they have [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pakistan are going to be a tougher proposition this time because they have gained confidence from winning a series . |
| 2 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |
| 3 | Millions of working mothers are hampered in their careers because they have to leave work in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 4 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 5 | that is against the law , because they have to have access to that cupboard in case there is a fire . |
| 6 | Information systems work is frequently carted out by external consultants or people recently recruited from outside , because they have had experience of such work elsewhere . |
| 7 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |