Example sentences of "[adj] this because " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's another interesting fact that as well erm and it 's borne out , I know opinion polls had a rather bad erm er er got a bad press in the general election er because they were n't very accurate and it was odd this because their , their accuracy levels had becoming er had , had , had been becoming frighteningly er accurate say in eighty seven you know ? |
| 2 | I 'm rather advertising this because I think it 's important to understand that although , and I 'm sure you know , that there 's this constant war really between , it was n't of course a physical war , but certainly tension , and difficulty between the university and the city . |
| 3 | I mention all this because it 's been in my mind a lot recently . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 5 | He ca n't give me any straight answers about all this because he is only concerned with the state-run prison service . |
| 6 | I say all this because no people on the face of the planet could be more attached to their island than the oft far travelled Shetlanders . |
| 7 | I mention all this because I know that many women are horrified at the idea of their baby being delivered in this way . |
| 8 | Fleischmann and Pons ' ideas had been anticipated though for all the wrong reasons , primarily a misguided attempt to make helium to fill airships , and all this because the USA would not sell the gas to postwar Germany . |
| 9 | ‘ All this because you were so all-fired determined to get away from Dane , ’ she muttered savagely , peering through a snow-clogged windscreen . |
| 10 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 11 | I know all this because she was engaged to my brother . |
| 12 | ‘ You disgust me Fernando and all this because of Maria Luisa . |
| 13 | It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard . |