Example sentences of "[was/were] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I do n't think they were because the school |
| 2 | Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said . |
| 3 | This was because a degree was part of the training of a gentleman , and not a technical qualification ; the scientist was as well-educated , though in a different line , as the classicist . |
| 4 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 5 | Dooling argued that this was because a context can affect sentence comprehension in two different ways . |
| 6 | He wondered if it was because a woman 's mind worked in a different way to a man 's or whether Blanche simply thought too much . |
| 7 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 8 | ’ I think the reason why The Lost Boys was so successful was because a lot of people can relate to someone like David . |
| 9 | The CAA said it was because every division of the authority was seeking to prevent accidents . |
| 10 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 11 | It was because an epidemic of cholera , with black banners fluttering , was advancing in solemn , deadly procession through the streets of the enclave . |
| 12 | Er , but there again I think it was because the person doing this , was so keen to see the right result , that he read into into |
| 13 | So , wh what , yo yo you you think Barbara , that , it was because the press were more gentlemanly , |
| 14 | This was because the landscape is flat , or gently undulating , and so there were few places which specially attracted people . |
| 15 | Partly this was because the division of the radio spectrum was fixed internationally , and the government was guarantor of British conformity to the agreement . |
| 16 | This was because the Secretary of State for the Environment , Michael Heseltine , was charged by the Prime Minister to take particular interest in , and suggest responses to , the problems of Liverpool . |
| 17 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 18 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 19 | This was because the state played a crucial role in segregating immigrants into twilight zones as a result of its making council housing available mainly to the white working class . |
| 20 | Initially it seemed that much of the children 's disaffection was because the curriculum was so irrelevant to them . |
| 21 | Lord Rothschild appeared on television to give a Dimbleby lecture in which he authoritatively reassured the public that the risks of nuclear power were negligible : if those risks were not , in fact , accepted , it was because the public were too stupid or ill-educated to realise that they were objectively ‘ acceptable ’ . |
| 22 | But now Mr Wolski had been asked to see her , and it was because the Curator , in his kind but mistaken way , thought he might like to take leave of the old eagle . |
| 23 | and it was because the generation whose sons were being sent to be slaughtered |
| 24 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 25 | Now , if we consider the moon and the earth as a big system gravitational system there is now more gravity in the system than there was because the moon is supplying the of gravity of it 's own . |
| 26 | The reason why the Cheshire cheesemakers saw fit to add a grinning cat to their product was because the expression to ‘ grin like a Cheshire Cat ’ was already in use for another reason altogether . |
| 27 | It was because the air was supposed to be better for my Dad . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This was because the system of land tenure was remarkably different from other areas , and there were a large number of ‘ statesmen ’ or ‘ estatesmen ’ who were small freeholders . |
| 30 | Adam Smith did not deny that there were bad examples within the " system of repairing the highroads by tolls " , but in 1776 thought this was because the system was not then of long standing . |