Example sentences of "[adj] because [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 2 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 3 | By the time you 've seen your third rapist walk free because you 've been cleverer than the prosecuting counsel , you lose the taste for that particular victory . |
| 4 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 5 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 6 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 7 | Most will be empty because they have been repossessed from mortgage defaulters . |
| 8 | The spearhead is dangerous because it has been dipped into the poison of communal rivalry between the 80%-plus of India that is Hindu and the 11% that is Muslim . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 10 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 11 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 12 | William was nervous because he 'd been here before and he knew what was going to happen next , but his father kept smiling at him cheerfully , a strong , reassuring presence by his side . |
| 13 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 14 | Inside Newark 's award-winning display hangar , Prentice T.1 VR249 is receiving a repaint , the silver finish achieved being all the more remarkable because it has been rollered on , not sprayed . |
| 15 | Physically it is costly because it has been proven to cause ulcers , arthritis and all sorts of other conditions . |
| 16 | The garden is so large because it had been a ‘ deese ’ , meaning , in Sussex parlance , a drying ground for herring ; dried they became bloaters for which Rye is famed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I pushed past — calamity kills scruple — and explained that I was late because I had been robbed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 21 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 22 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 23 | A parliamentary candidate has branded a football club as sexist because she 's been barred from a men-only dinner . |
| 24 | The rural poor are poor because they have been prevented from using resources available to others , such as credit , land , technology and social services . |
| 25 | For Clarissa Grey , the summer had been memorable because she had been consistently happy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And this is strange because he has been all his working life that representative of law and order , a dedicated policeman . |
| 29 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 30 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |