Example sentences of "that was because " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 2 | That was because they tended to imply that beliefs , laws , and principles were not based on eternal unchanging principles but were aspects of the type of society in which they occurred . |
| 3 | These writers criticized the industry for being a second-rate imitation of Hollywood , but that was because they despised American cinema and the ‘ box-office bogey ’ , not because they appreciated the economic gap between the two industries . |
| 4 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 5 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
| 6 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 7 | That was because Tripoli settled the terms of the defence ; and those savoured jokes , the involuted ironies of domestic debate were as much influenced by Tripoli as the more openly controlled agenda of the local Assembly . |
| 8 | That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day . |
| 9 | Perhaps that was because he was very dark round the chin and lower cheeks . |
| 10 | That was because I was afraid of being like them . ’ |
| 11 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 12 | Strange that they did n't hurt , but perhaps that was because the man was dead . |
| 13 | Although Pendero had finished strongly at Ascot , that was because it had been a truly run race and the leaders had finished tired . |
| 14 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 15 | Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done . |
| 16 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |
| 17 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 18 | In 1935 the fact that an Election was anticipated had probably increased support for the Peace Ballot : but that was because the Aeon had steered clear of party politics . |
| 19 | Rangers prospered so emphatically in their encounter against Leeds , but that was because the games were played within the confines of the British style . |
| 20 | He recalled : ‘ I certainly gave two very bad TV interviews that gave the impression that things were all wrong , all uptight , but that was because I felt it necessary to defend the players . ’ |
| 21 | I thought she was quieter than I remembered , but perhaps that was because Aunt Kit had become so much more talkative . |
| 22 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 23 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 24 | My mother said that was because one married whom one met . |
| 25 | That was because they had extracted from Lord Owen , one of the authors of the peace plan , a concession at a meeting in Greece last weekend that would prevent Croat or Muslim soldiers from reclaiming territory from which Serb troops had withdrawn . |
| 26 | She had won the Fur and Feather Section with him at the Sandringham Show — ‘ Maybe that was because he was the only entry , ’ she observes drily — and later won the Palmer Cup for Pets ' Corner at her new school . |
| 27 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 28 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 29 | I do not think that that was because she was a more effective communicator . |
| 30 | That was because of the custody . |