Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [vb pp] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might suggest that the support service which the team gives to families has been developed largely because it was an " unclaimed " service area , as it were . |
| 2 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it has been done simply because , as a language-orientated activity , the concern with linguistic form and function has been uppermost . |
| 4 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 5 | Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first . |
| 6 | We know now from the Portuguese Government that that delegation has been called off because of the recent tragic events in East Timor . |
| 7 | But some pantomime has been called off because Snow White |
| 8 | Inspector Neville Oughtibridge , of Wakefield police , said : ‘ The job of policing the town centre has been made easier because there 's just not the amount of money around there used to be . |
| 9 | It seems to me that that structural advance has been made mainly because of the breakdown of the big integrated production monopolies of the BBC and ITV , with their teams , solid structure and union agreements about their size . |
| 10 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 11 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 12 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 13 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 14 | Partly because of water privatisation the problem has been played down because it will cost millions of pounds to solve . |
| 15 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 16 | This is the largest trade deficit ( relative to national income ) in recent history and has been caused largely because of the sustained growth of domestic incomes and spending since 1981 . |
| 17 | The Green Belt around London has been preserved not because someone put a price on it but because voters in the Home Counties wanted to stop the city sprawling outwards seemingly for ever . |
| 18 | Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire , and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated ; he calls this the ‘ Buzby effect ’ . |
| 19 | Basic English has been criticised particularly because the limited vocabulary leads to circumlocution in order to express often quite simple concepts . |
| 20 | For over a decade the NWICO has been defamed partly because of the word ‘ order ’ . |
| 21 | Outlook has been held over because of lack of space . |
| 22 | He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God . |
| 23 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 24 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county , being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 25 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 26 | The search to find another area of the town where buses can stop has been brought about because of mounting complaints about congestion in Prebend Row . |
| 27 | A rearranged game with Grimsby for February 25 has been postponed again because of the first leg . |
| 28 | Well , the police have been involved , and I suppose he 's been cautioned now because they 've investigated and found that thi that it was scaring the sheep and that , yes i , he was right to do what he did he quite within his rights and whatever . |
| 29 | Well I think it 's not a superstructure that 's been put there because , I mean , for example when you get a particular idea there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing . |