Example sentences of "this [was/were] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was after the interest bill surged to £11.5m from £3.8m , negating operating profits . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Dooling argued that this was because a context can affect sentence comprehension in two different ways . |
| 5 | Partly this was because the division of the radio spectrum was fixed internationally , and the government was guarantor of British conformity to the agreement . |
| 6 | This was because the landscape is flat , or gently undulating , and so there were few places which specially attracted people . |
| 7 | This was because the field now included more subtle nasty strategies capable of preying ruthlessly upon such an out-and-out softy . |
| 8 | C. Anne Wilson says , in her Food and Drink in Britain , that this was because the pine-cone was known as a pineapple in the 17th century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was because the deuterium was continuing to be dissolved into the palladium and this takes energy out of the surroundings , acting like a refrigerator . |
| 17 | This was because the post ( vertical portion ) and arm ( horizontal portion ) both locate over moulded and shaped sections . |
| 18 | This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future . |
| 19 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 20 | No doubt this was because the weather was much better , now that September was under way ; it was cooler and the spectators could stroll in the sunshine without needing the shade of umbrellas . |
| 21 | This was because the circulation of capital slows down and the process of exploiting labour power is hindered . |
| 22 | This was because the Bratianu dynasty flourished at the top of an increasingly Westernized society , whose new value it symbolized . |
| 23 | 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. |