Example sentences of "[was/were] [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 2 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 3 | The familiar acute face had thickened out , and the hair , remembered as darker than it actually was because of all those black-and-white films , had greyed becomingly . |
| 4 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 5 | J W Clifford , now in Darlington but born in Gurney Valley 75 years ago , argues simply that it was because of all the fights not least between the boys of Gurney Valley and their contemporaries from the Cumberland Arms area , then known as Brickyard . |
| 6 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 7 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 8 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 9 | ( It was because of these men that the legends spread that goblins and elves stole such stuff . ) |
| 10 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 11 | It was because of this that ‘ rest is possible only when fatigue demands it . |
| 12 | ( It was because of this that people from the impoverished villages who sought work in the towns did n't always find it . ) |
| 13 | It was because of this close association with the butchers and cattle drovers , that the Rottweiler was to become known as the metzgerhunt , or butcher 's dog . |
| 14 | It was because of this denial of the importance of lesbians and lesbian strength within the organization ( by lesbians as much as heterosexual women ) that heterosexual women were encouraged to take over key positions . |
| 15 | It was because of this shocking rate of avoidable death that the British Society for the Social Responsibility of-Science published Asbestos — Killer Dust in 1979 . |
| 16 | It was because of this that Europeans were anxious to keep US troops permanently on the continent , almost as ‘ hostages ’ , the logic being that the Senate was bound to declare war on an aggressor if US soldiers were killed in Europe . |
| 17 | It was because of this , along with the commonplaces of fashionable racial theory , that most educated Russians at the beginning of the twentieth century were convinced that practically all the smaller peoples of Siberia were irrevocably doomed to extinction . |
| 18 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 19 | It was because of this interest that he was awarded a Red Cross medal for services rendered to the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian war . |
| 20 | Much of the controversy which originally surrounded the rational expectations hypothesis was because of this implication . |
| 21 | It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available . |
| 22 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 23 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 24 | And we had an example of that , a good example this year of course with erm that in that , in the spring of this year John Major erm had to call an election before June twentieth I think the date was because by that time then parliament would have automatically been dissolved . |
| 25 | This was because in all 11 cases , the referent was an established discourse focus . |
| 26 | The question was whether on any construction of section 9(4) the court would have power to order an officer or servant of the Crown currently working in the Ministry of Defence to produce or give evidence of the contents of these documents . |