Example sentences of "were [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that 51.96 per cent of those in ‘ primary poverty ’ were so because the chief breadwinner was ‘ in regular work but at low wages ’ ; 22.16 per cent of primary poverty was due , in modern terminology , to ‘ child poverty ’ , i.e. the family had more than four children and insufficient income to support so large a family ; 15.63 per cent to ‘ death of chief wage-earner ’ ; 5.11 per cent to the illness and old age of chief wage-earner ; 2.83 per cent to ‘ irregularity of work ’ ; 2.31 per cent to unemployment . |
| 2 | Up till now , anyone who was away on holiday when an election was held lost the right to vote , and some people who were away because of their work lost their vote too . |
| 3 | At least the postbag was relatively light at the moment : so many people were away because of the holiday season that the normal deluge of correspondence had dried to a trickle . |
| 4 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 5 | The Walsall Wood Guild was in particular and when you look round , even the Walsall ones were like because you 've got erm er you 've got board members . |
| 6 | There were seven bookings in an untidy game and Hoddle added : ‘ The problems tonight were totally because of the new laws of the game . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to think that our audience here came out because of the last gig , because that caused a real stir here and I 'd like to think they were here because they 'd heard it was special . |
| 8 | Vologsky had constantly reassured himself that the repeated refusals were simply because his applications happened to be made at an inopportune moment . |
| 9 | The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged . |
| 10 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 11 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 12 | ‘ Good idea , ’ Dad replied with a twinkle in his eye : he knew why they were there because he went out and fetched them in and later took them back himself . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's always some police by the Circus , ’ I knew they were there because of the Jewish population around the area — and the frequent Mosley British Fascist parades . |
| 14 | But the overwhelming majority of the palace 's clients when I was in the North-East were local men , and nearly half — the biggest single category — were there because their own homes had been disbanded . |
| 15 | We wer were there because we wanted to be there . |
| 16 | Some were there because , well , elsewhere they would starve . |