Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer realized that it was because she was pleased with herself . |
| 2 | It must be appreciated , therefore , that when Coenwulf maintained that Offa wished to diminish the dignity of Canterbury because of his hatred of Archbishop Jaenberht and the people of Kent , whereas Pope Leo declared that it was because of the vastness of his lands and kingdom that Offa had desired it , both were representing Offa 's motives in ways which suited their immediate purposes . |
| 3 | After the election Mr Bryan Gould , when asked why he thought Labour had lost , replied that it was because the electorate was too ‘ conservative ’ . |
| 4 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 5 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 6 | We discovered that it was because of the pills put between the cocoa bean sacs to kill insects . |
| 7 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 8 | Huy knew that it was because the policeman could trust him only so far after his confession . |
| 9 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |
| 10 | Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not . |
| 11 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 12 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 13 | O'Toole always refused to say why and when he stopped drinking , but denied that it was because of a stomach operation he underwent . |
| 14 | I asked the Corporal why he had saluted and he explained that it was because the Legion was the senior arm of the French Armed Forces . |
| 15 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 16 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |