Example sentences of "this was [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was n't because he did n't care for a hardship see , or because the malais had intimidated him . |
| 2 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 3 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 4 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 5 | If Picasso was dissatisfied with the Cadaquès paintings , this was probably because he felt them to be too hermetic and abstract . |
| 6 | It is true that Dicey , the LPDL , and later the BCA , allied themselves with the Conservative party , but this was not because they considered themselves Conservatives . |
| 7 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 8 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 9 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 10 | But this was not because I received no proposals . |
| 11 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 12 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |
| 13 | This was more than she had dared to hope . |
| 14 | Even this was more than she 'd wanted to know . |
| 15 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 16 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |
| 17 | Mr Malik had insisted the staff also appear in uniform since early February , although Robert suspected this was only because he had a deal with the shop that supplied the ties and the socks . |
| 18 | This was notwithstanding that he had not found the relationship between the bank and the husband to be one of principal and agent . |
| 19 | As this was long before I had any real experience of life myself it was hardly surprising that Shakespeare 's comments should not have meant much to me then . |
| 20 | Mr Browning , with an expression on his face that said he guessed what this was about and it did not please him , nodded . |
| 21 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |