Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to sweat , and it was not because of the boy 's weight . |
| 2 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 3 | And it was simply because it was er |
| 4 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
| 5 | And it was n't because you suddenly remembered you were in love with another man , because you 're not the kind of girl who plays away from home . |
| 6 | There would be trouble now , and it was all because of him . |
| 7 | The Historic Buildings Council was unable to increase its grant to pay for this work and it was only because of the intervention of the chairman of the planning committee that an exceptional grant to cover the extra cost was obtained from Southwark Council . |
| 8 | Amy failed to monitor someone 's blood-pressure adequately and it was only because Kathleen bothered to check that a potentially life-threatening internal haemorrhage was detected in time . |
| 9 | ‘ But it was mostly because he had eaten so much . |
| 10 | In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail . |
| 11 | But it was also because the overt challenge to the authority of the State high lighted the potential for much more widespread unrest . |
| 12 | But it was also because Britain , as a heavily industrialised nation , got little in return from Brussels under CAP payments . |
| 13 | This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work . |
| 14 | Early on , Solowka and Gregory did their own bit of AWOLing but it was usually because of a Littlewoods Cup replay , not to escort a bevy of simpering temptresses in nylon flairs . |
| 15 | This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area . |
| 16 | But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home . |
| 17 | But it was only because it was done in er er I think . |