Example sentences of "is because [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are mentioned , it is because they have been recommended and are generally regarded as good courses . |
| 2 | This is because they have been processed automatically ; but if our attention is on our own thoughts rather than the author 's , then comprehension will fail . |
| 3 | In contrast to this , I wish to argue that if disabled people display psychological abnormalities , this is because they have been socialised into such traits as a result of the ways in which society meets , or fails to meet , our needs , and that the claim that such features are a consequence of impairment is itself an aspect of the oppression of disabled people since it misidentifies , and thus does nothing to overcome , the main source of psychological distress . |
| 4 | Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure . |
| 5 | ‘ If Gómez is not at the address you have given me I shall presume it is because you 've been in touch with him , so do n't phone him . |
| 6 | If western free-market fundamentalism has been faintly relaxed in the west , this is because it has been intensified in its export version . |
| 7 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 8 | This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal . |
| 9 | If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success . |
| 10 | But a is because it 's been used though . |