Example sentences of "were [adj] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
| 2 | The late Victorian period was the first in which there were considerable numbers of agnostics , atheists and opponents of organized religion who led lives of exemplary respectability ; it could not be urged of Huxley , Clifford or Tyndall that they were irreligious because they were libertines , like the earlier ungodly . |
| 3 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 4 | The older ones were pleased because they would get a lot of money , the younger ones were upset because they were thinking about the future . |
| 5 | Finally , some key workers were apprehensive because they saw care programming as one step towards making them responsible for purchasing care , like budget-holding care managers in some social services authorities . |
| 6 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 7 | Northern Ireland Members were disadvantaged because they did not have the information and could not comment . |
| 8 | There was , however , a widespread feeling that very large armies were undesirable because they were difficult to supply and manoeuvre . |
| 9 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 10 | They were fearless because they were without enemies . |
| 11 | They were popular because they were so lousy . |
| 12 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 13 | They were dangerous because they , these enormous living things , had gained the strength to kill people . |
| 14 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 15 | As they watched the towering ships sail forth his advisors were dismayed because they feared that the despatch of such a force would leave Ulthuan almost defenceless . |
| 16 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 17 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 18 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 19 | They were human because they possessed the essentials of the superego and with it the genuinely human phenomena of culture , religion and neurosis . |
| 20 | On the other hand it is not enough simply to say that Libyans were inconsistent because they could not change their ideas fast enough to keep up with their changing society . |
| 21 | The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in |
| 22 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 23 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 24 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 25 | CD 's early agreements with Macrone , Bentley , and Chapman & Hall were unsatisfactory because they did not take into account the rapidly increasing value of his writings . |
| 26 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 27 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 28 | Only 1% of all those questioned said they were unhappy because they had difficulty receiving the service on FM . |
| 29 | Whether they were poor because they were lame , or lame because they were poor , was perhaps a matter for sociologists , and a few years later , when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford , it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 30 | Led by USAID , they argued that people in the Third World were poor because they were having too many children . |