Example sentences of "[was/were] because [pron] have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space . |
| 2 | It was because she had known the contagion of the one that she entered so passionately into the incorruptibility of the other . |
| 3 | If Alina was looking cynical , Angelica could only suppose that it was because she 'd earned the right to be . |
| 4 | Khrushchev explicitly stated to me that one of his reasons for suspending tests was because he had studied the effect of the CND on the British public . |
| 5 | After setting an Open championship tournament record 283 , Sarazen said it was because he had had the sense to listen to his caddie at every tricky point through the tournament , calling Daniels ' club selection ‘ brilliant ’ , and his understanding of Sarazen 's sometimes less-than-cautious temperament uncanny . |
| 6 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |