Example sentences of "it was [adj] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at first it was nice because there was more money coming into the house , and they could feed the gas monster and have hot water and fires . |
| 2 | It was terrific because we had young boys out there . ’ |
| 3 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 4 | It was surprising because the group had always been perceived as a solid fourpiece and Charman was often vociferous during interviews . |
| 5 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 6 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
| 7 | Look , drink , look again … this time it was easy because she had instigated the toast . |
| 8 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 9 | It was brilliant because |
| 10 | Sometimes he felt himself wince and it was strange because he could n't tell whether it was the needle or his memory . |
| 11 | It was strange because there were only two of them , and normally it takes a lot more than that to make me feel outnumbered . |
| 12 | ’ We had one month when we were losing thousands of pounds worth of clothes each week , ’ says branch manager Sue Turner ’ It was strange because we never caught anyone . |
| 13 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 14 | He thought it was fabulous because I guess he just was n't used to living in all that space and the idea of living in this enormous rambling series of rooms appealed to him very much . |
| 15 | Er well it er it was normal because it was the only time I , I 've heard it happen in Street anyway but there were , there was kids being sent away all the time to borstal and er for doing wrong things . |
| 16 | It was good because every week a Brownie brought in a pet . |
| 17 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 18 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 19 | It was essential because by the end of the second half the nerves were jangling . |
| 20 | It worked and I think it was honest because we were filming in hot places . |
| 21 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 22 | Oh it was hysterical because it was blowing a gale ! |
| 23 | I ca n't think of his name now , but it was great because there was this really tough girl who wanted to hang around with me because this guy fancied me . |
| 24 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 25 | When I was a kid it was great because you could go to the music store , put down your money and get something like an SG Junior — not an expensive guitar but a really good guitar all the same , a guitar you could keep for life . |
| 26 | ‘ It was great because I met Brian May , Tony Iommi , Mick Ronson , Jeff Beck , all in one day ! |
| 27 | She knew at once it was serious because her father was still up . |
| 28 | But he finished the article on a serious note : you could tell it was serious because it was printed in heavy type . |
| 29 | In a general way , I suppose it was still-born because the town of Poole lay only four miles across the bay , founded about forty years before by William Longsword , Earl of Salisbury , and the new town of Edward 's , for all its royal backing and privileges of the City of London , could not compete with it . |
| 30 | The system appeared elitist but it was mass-inclusionary because bureaucratic rationality was , through the LDP , subject to constituency demands at the constituency level . |