Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 2 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 3 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 4 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 5 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 6 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 7 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 8 | Purification The mother had to be purified because she was considered to be unclean . |
| 9 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 10 | Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage . |
| 11 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 12 | When black youth did appear it was often because they were seen to be a problem . |
| 13 | The Japanese are reluctant , partly because they were asked to be contributors after the machine had been designed , rather than to be partners for the whole project . |
| 14 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 15 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 16 | Respectable people rejected the movies because they were thought to be trivial but also because they were thought to be corrupting and immoral . |
| 17 | ( Because they were thought to be able to change their form at will , the accused were branded ‘ shape shifters ’ ) . |
| 18 | Five paintings by a mass murderer , once withdrawn from auction because they were thought to be in bad taste , have been bought by a collector . |
| 19 | He could n't use his own car because they were going to be way out of radio range , and he needed the car telephone with the scrambler attachment . |
| 20 | English vessels were unpopular among shippers because they were judged to be incompetently run . |
| 21 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 22 | Even so , in Roman days diamonds had a far greater monetary value than gold , because they were reputed to be indestructible , and , more important , they would safeguard their wearer against a whole range of misfortunes , from poison to madness . |
| 23 | Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man . |
| 24 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 25 | A really educated man , if you if anyone had any forms to fill in er it was the postman you invariably went to , because he was considered to be , he could read and write you see . |
| 26 | In Lambie [ 1982 ] AC 449 and MPC v Charles [ 1977 ] AC 177 , the payee did not care whether the accused 's account was in the red because he was going to be paid anyway in accordance with his contract with the bank or credit card company which provided the cheque card or credit card . |
| 27 | This was a crucial consideration , especially for the unskilled , because it was seen to be their only asset . |
| 28 | It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world . |
| 29 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |
| 30 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |