Example sentences of "because it [was/were] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |
| 2 | Baffling , this , because it was right on the copy . |
| 3 | Fenella was trying to be very patient , because it was not in the least unreasonable of Caspar to want to go on and leave the Dark Workshops as far behind them as possible . |
| 4 | It is more the other way round , they would buy a record because it was n't in the charts . ’ |
| 5 | I remembered the van because it was just like the ones Barry bought for the business , except it was red , not white . ’ |
| 6 | He had n't seen the tug at first because it was alongside on the far side . |
| 7 | This was the very fringe of his parish , that part that would never become residentially ‘ desirable ’ because it was too near the railway , and many of the big gaunt houses had been taken over by families of West Indians . |
| 8 | And the s Well you used to scrape some of it off because it was all over the |
| 9 | It is a commemoration and ensures that people remember the event because it was out of the ordinary , and special . |