Example sentences of "[was/were] because [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the terrible thing about wolves : you could never tell where they were because they were always in disguise . |
| 2 | Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over . |
| 3 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 4 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 5 | They were because he could n't get a pair of ordinary shoes to fit over his infected and frost-bitten feet from four months described as ‘ the nastiest of my life . ’ |
| 6 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 7 | And the reason it was a landmark was because nothing in the show itself was a cliché . |
| 8 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 9 | My mother said that was because one married whom one met . |
| 10 | That was because one got the feeling she was not with her husband . |
| 11 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 12 | It was because we felt guilty , I suggested . |
| 13 | It was because we were unable to bear troubles like these that we came into the Party . |
| 14 | Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space . |
| 15 | One of the reasons Loop fell to bits was because we lost control of what was going on and did too many stupid things . |
| 16 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 17 | It was because we were strangers in bed that we were passionately involved there . |
| 18 | Some said it was because we had harvested too many beans , but it was because our union was getting stronger . |
| 19 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 20 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 21 | I suppose it was because we would have had to talk about it then , and you 'd already decided you were n't going to do that . |
| 22 | That was because we had a sensible framework of industrial relations laws . |
| 23 | The reason why that was founded was because we thought that the women 's movement in this country and its channels of communication and its publications and so on , including Spare Rib at the time , just did not reflect the struggles of either Black women in this country or any other movements within other countries , especially within Third World countries . |
| 24 | Yeah , one of the reasons it bucked the trend was because we 've erm , ground one of our competitors into the dust and he 's had to combine with another newspaper there and that too is struggling . |
| 25 | On the applications that 's quite interesting because the reason the applications are moved to separate days was because we can work we 're having to lunch and then make again |
| 26 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 27 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 28 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 29 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 30 | In every case where such innovations proved lasting , it was because they adapted well to the specific environment of the farmers . |