Example sentences of "because it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 2 | My mother preferred the daily serial , Mrs Dale 's Dairy , which she mocked a little but rather liked because it was about a doctor 's wife . |
| 3 | He found Dead Ringers ( a tale about twins who are mirror images of each other , starring Jeremy Irons ) particularly frightening ‘ because it was about the fear of self . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't tell you before because it was about the rags . ’ |
| 5 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 6 | He dismissed from his mind , because it was of no concern at this moment , the fate of the army he had left fighting Siward . |
| 7 | Last year , at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , it was generally agreed that the US deficit was less of a threat because it was on a downward path . |
| 8 | Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to . |
| 9 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 10 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 11 | Very appropriate remark , Michael , the charter is up for review at any event , very shortly , because it was on a six-month trial as it were . |
| 12 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 13 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 14 | The wealth and power of Tomsk were irreparably damaged , and supremacy passed to Novosibirsk , the ‘ Chicago of the Soviet Union ’ , a small settlement which became a great city simply because it was on the main line . |
| 15 | It was a local canal planned by local men with local capital for local reasons.40 An extreme example perhaps because it was on the periphery of the network , but in general few canals were cut with other than local economic benefits in mind . |
| 16 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 17 | Because it was on the back of something which he was making recently . |
| 18 | Because it was on the other B B C one so it should be on this one as well . |
| 19 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
| 20 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 21 | So everyone called it Druid 's Bottom because it was at the bottom of the Grove . ’ |
| 22 | actually caught with , I think he was just starting on that when Mike come down , er but , he got it out this magazine rack because it was at the back of there I put it , cos it 's this year 's the others I 've got upstairs in a drawer |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Native Egyptian culture declined during the Hellenistic period because it was under the direct control of Greeks and came to represent an inferior stratum of the population . |
| 24 | Helen had been hurt by Jochen [ Rindt 's ] death but somehow , perhaps because it was near the end of the racing year , we both seemed to mend before the next season got underway . |
| 25 | But in spite of Tess 's decision to forget her ancestors , the dairy , called Talbothays , especially attracted her because it was near the former lands of the old d'Urberville family . |
| 26 | It seems that the non-malicious act of a stranger was not a valid defence to the scienter action , because it was within the risk that must be accepted by anyone who knowingly chooses to keep a dangerous animal . |
| 27 | He was able to plan with precision and enthusiasm the date of his own retirement , to look forward to it because it was in no way forced upon him , and to believe that he would be remembered with affection and regret . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but he would n't come because it was in a registry office . |
| 29 | ‘ I can half accept the free kick because it was in a central position but to let one in straight from a corner is something else … |
| 30 | They would n't give a lot because it was in a bad |