Example sentences of "[was/were] because [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space . |
| 4 | Some said it was because we had harvested too many beans , but it was because our union was getting stronger . |
| 5 | That was because we had a sensible framework of industrial relations laws . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was because we felt guilty , I suggested . |
| 11 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 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 | In every case where such innovations proved lasting , it was because they adapted well to the specific environment of the farmers . |
| 17 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 18 | This was because they purchased in bulk , often for delivery to a central depot and placed large orders well in advance of the delivery date , thus enabling the manufacturer to organise production more efficiently . |
| 19 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 20 | They do n't tell you why they refuse you , but I think it was because they knew I was Black from my name . |
| 21 | They had faith in him , and I believe that this was because they knew he had faith in them . |
| 22 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 23 | She asked them why ; they said it was because they had information that the two children had been sexually abused . |
| 24 | That they did not was because they had achieved only conservation of energy in the sense that the amount released exceeded that contained in the mass of a muon . |
| 25 | That was because they had extracted from Lord Owen , one of the authors of the peace plan , a concession at a meeting in Greece last weekend that would prevent Croat or Muslim soldiers from reclaiming territory from which Serb troops had withdrawn . |
| 26 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 27 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 28 | It was because they had been rich and important for so long , generation after generation , rather than just since the invention of the power loom and the spinning frame , like her John-William . |
| 29 | Several contemporaries suggested that the reason why the modern Whigs were losing support was because they had deserted old Whig principles . |
| 30 | Surely the reason for the rebuke , why he said that they were timid and they 'd no faith was because they had lost sight of the fact , or the , the importance of the fact that he was there with them . |