Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] because the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as strong as all that , however ; for if the internal difficulties were eased because the government 's hand was strengthened by the plebiscite , the problems of making the new Constitution work did not go away . |
| 2 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 3 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 4 | What happened in Pomerania also happened elsewhere , but in Pomerania the processes were accentuated because the place was so far behind the rest of the world in its social and economic order , and because its mixed Polish and German population accentuated the clash between the rural and industrial identities and social orders . |
| 5 | During the campaign several FN rallies were cancelled because the authorities feared violence . |
| 6 | For continuous variables medians were used because the results lacked normal distribution . |
| 7 | Rosyth 's managing director , Allan Smith , said the job cuts were needed because the Ministry of Defence had reduced its workload and London Underground had cut the number of trains it wanted refurbished . |
| 8 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 9 | Of these 36 errors , all but one were detected because the initial lexical look-up found no other candidate string to be allowable at each of these word positions . |
| 10 | The RSPCA believes the dogs were dumped because the owner feared he may be proscuted on cruelty charges . |
| 11 | Plans in the 1970s and 1980s to build facilities to dispose of the waste were abandoned because the Soviet authorities " saw no actual danger from dumping radioactive waste at sea , " the report says . |
| 12 | Masters degree theses were excluded because the smaller numbers made them unsuitable for analysis . |
| 13 | At the trial state prosecutors argued that subversion charges were warranted because the defendant had sought ‘ to give a wrong picture of the facts in East Timor to prove that the Indonesian Government did not respect human rights in the province ’ . |
| 14 | The overall aims of the work were achieved because the girl 's development picked up , the boy 's behaviour was better understood , and the mother 's confidence improved . |
| 15 | She did n't sign , and whatever words she might have been able to lipread were lost because the lighting in the delivery room was terrible . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 17 | No support staff were required because the computer generates its own report , and since most reports were sent by internal mail , administrative costs were minimal . |
| 18 | In addition , 24 response sheets were returned because the user had changed address and could not be contacted either by the agency concerned and/or the user 's family . |
| 19 | Grey was recalled because the Old English persuaded Elizabeth that the severity of Grey 's tactics in repressing Irish rebellion were counter-productive . |
| 20 | The Manufacturing Improvement Team was formed because the plant had to improve its manufacturing capability to survive . |
| 21 | Obviously the inner layer was punctured because the outer skin was burning hot against her chill fingers . |
| 22 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 23 | It was limited because the company and hence the managers running the company were seen to exercise no greater power than any other ordinary individual participant in the product market in which the company operated . |
| 24 | Special protection was given because the site provides refuge to one of Britain 's rarest birds , the honey buzzard , a migrant from West Africa . |
| 25 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 26 | This judicial tinkering was justified because the court was ‘ sure that the altered decision represent[ed] that which the decision-maker would have enacted had he appreciated the limitation on his powers ’ . |
| 27 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 28 | According to the official statement the process was delayed because the census had still to be completed and the election code had not been adopted by the HCR . |
| 29 | Another case detailed in the report concerns a bypass project which was delayed because the Southern Electricity Board was late in starting the diversion of power lines as agreed with the DoT . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's 17 April , ’ I said and then wondered if the church was booked because the canon suddenly looked preoccupied — he seemed to be somewhere else entirely for a minute . |