Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] because they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
| 2 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 3 | Finally , some key workers were apprehensive because they saw care programming as one step towards making them responsible for purchasing care , like budget-holding care managers in some social services authorities . |
| 4 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 5 | Northern Ireland Members were disadvantaged because they did not have the information and could not comment . |
| 6 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 7 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 8 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 9 | As they watched the towering ships sail forth his advisors were dismayed because they feared that the despatch of such a force would leave Ulthuan almost defenceless . |
| 10 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 11 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 12 | They were human because they possessed the essentials of the superego and with it the genuinely human phenomena of culture , religion and neurosis . |
| 13 | The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in |
| 14 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 15 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 16 | CD 's early agreements with Macrone , Bentley , and Chapman & Hall were unsatisfactory because they did not take into account the rapidly increasing value of his writings . |
| 17 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 18 | Only 1% of all those questioned said they were unhappy because they had difficulty receiving the service on FM . |
| 19 | The journalists submitted that the directives were unlawful because they conflicted with the duty of the BBC and IBA under section 4 of the 1981 Act to preserve ‘ due impartiality ’ . |
| 20 | The workers in section 61 were angry because they felt , firstly , that the quotas of production allocated to white workers were unfair compared with the quota allocated to them ; secondly , because conditions of work were different for Asian workers — their washing times , lunch breaks and toilet breaks were restricted ; and thirdly because , although most of the workers were Asians , the union branch had an overwhelmingly white shop steward 's committee ( there was only one Asian shop steward ) which was not only uninterested in their struggles but actively opposed to them . |
| 21 | The home fans were angry because they thought Andy Ansah was offside when big striker Ian Benjamin hit the 75th-minute winner . |
| 22 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 23 | But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents , and refused to let the strange child share their room . |
| 24 | Few were shocked because they had already heard the story and sexual embellishments like ‘ his whole body trembling and shuddering next to mine … ’ and ‘ this was an Irish Famine of the flesh ’ added little . |
| 25 | Levels in the former group were higher because they compounded a greater burden which already existed by 1795 . |
| 26 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 27 | Some were difficult because they seemed too controlled , or controlling . |
| 28 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 29 | The first defendants were liable because they had an opportunity to examine the tool . |
| 30 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |