Example sentences of "because there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , do you know , before the war we could turn the cows out in the lane outside the farm before breakfast on summer mornings to graze the hedgerows because there was just no traffic at that time . |
| 2 | He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them . |
| 3 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 4 | Rain did not keep much in the car , because there was always the risk of attracting a thief . |
| 5 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
| 6 | I chose Canberra because there was quite a nest of chick workers there , including one of my own past students . |
| 7 | But is this because there was then no machinery for collecting and distributing the money or because there was no authority-imposed duty to pay it ? |
| 8 | The street is in three parts : Market Street , because there was once a market ; Church Street , because of the Church of King Charles the Martyr , built at the Restoration ; and Arwenack Street , because it leads eventually to Arwenack House , all that is left of the home of the Killigrews , a mixed bag of soldiers , dramatists , pirates and entrepreneurs , who founded the town and built the church . |
| 9 | He would outrun the horrid things who had stood leering at him , because there was never a being yet created that could catch a Gruagach once he put his mind to running . |
| 10 | In a written answer on 7 May 1991 the minister of state said that 274 mandatory life sentence cases were considered in 1990 , possibly because there was still a backlog from pre- Handscomb days . |
| 11 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 12 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |