Example sentences of "this was because " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 2 | This was because of de-stocking and running down of high volume , low margin brands , and a change of year end at the Schenley offshoot last time . |
| 3 | Where teaching was unsatisfactory this was because of an over-dependence on formal lectures . |
| 4 | In part , perhaps , this was because of an effective advertising campaign on their behalf by Saatchi and Saatchi who published posters of the alleged army of unemployed people ( recruited , in fact , from the affluent ranks of the Young Conservatives ) which claimed that ‘ Labour is n't working ’ . |
| 5 | In part , this was because of rising affluence , and a sense of financial and other independence among women . |
| 6 | This was because of his elder brother Frank , whose academic career was already starred . |
| 7 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 8 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 9 | This was because , throughout the work of the founders of Marxism , a central idea is that everything in capitalism is linked to the capitalist relations of production , and that therefore the family under capitalism is a capitalist phenomenon . |
| 10 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 11 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |
| 12 | This was because no-one could be sure who exactly within this group begot him . |
| 13 | This was because according to Morgan kin terms lag behind . |
| 14 | This new , private property would be , according to Engels and Morgan , in the hands of men , unlike the communal property of the gens , which was controlled by women , since they controlled the gens ; this was because Engels believed since men would be responsible for production at this stage it was natural that they would control what was necessary for production . |
| 15 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 16 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 17 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 18 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 19 | C. Anne Wilson says , in her Food and Drink in Britain , that this was because the pine-cone was known as a pineapple in the 17th century . |
| 20 | Mr Wilson-Brown , who opened the first computerised perchery barn with piped radio three months ago , said yesterday : ‘ We were concerned when production fell and realised that this was because the hens did not like the endless election news , comment and argument . |
| 21 | This was because of past history when it was expected of the womenfolk , and the close family structure where others could be called on to assist if necessary . |
| 22 | This was because the £3 3s. 0d. subscription was still the same as in 1907 not having been increased , making the return on the bond if taken as golf still only around the 3% level , clearly the capital could earn better interest elsewhere . |
| 23 | This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future . |
| 24 | This was because earth from these defensive earthworks , or terraggi , was thrown up to form the city 's first fortress . |
| 25 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 26 | He suggests that this was because of a dispute over the carrying of the Irish tricolour ; the NILP would not march with it and the republicans would not march without it . |
| 27 | This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy . |
| 28 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 29 | According to the Marxist Left , this was because socialism and the class struggle were betrayed . |
| 30 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |