Example sentences of "because they have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , one reason why so many antiracist initiatives have failed is because they have assumed some kind of transitive relation between policy and practice . |
| 2 | If that happens , and West of Scotland beat Grangemouth at Burnbrae to accompany the Colleges up , there will be much gnashing of teeth among the Musselburgh XV , who have the best defensive record of the three clubs but could lose out because they have scored fewer points . |
| 3 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |
| 4 | We have to believe they are right because they have played such an important part in our identity and in defining the world for us . |
| 5 | Their explanation relies on the ‘ turnover costs ’ that would be involved : the fact that insiders are more productive because they have had more on-the-job training ; that such training may well come from insiders who on being sacked will not be there to supply it ; that harassment via picket lines , the ‘ angry silence ’ , etc. , can be employed even by displaced insiders , that the unpopular act of replacing a whole work-force is likely to cost the firm in terms of lost' good-will ‘ . |
| 6 | But one of the unkind truths of tourism is that backward places are more appealing because they have changed much less ; the Upper Soule , in its more inaccessible parts , is just what many who come to the Pyrenees want : rawly natural . |