Example sentences of "was because we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space . |
| 2 | Some said it was because we had harvested too many beans , but it was because our union was getting stronger . |
| 3 | That was because we had a sensible framework of industrial relations laws . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was because we felt guilty , I suggested . |
| 9 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 13 | One of the reasons Loop fell to bits was because we lost control of what was going on and did too many stupid things . |