Example sentences of "because it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er only th back counter effort was er Slippery Elm , that was a back of the counter sort of thing , Slippery Elm , because it was dangerous practice . |
| 2 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 3 | The play revolves around Brose , a harebrained nonentity machine-operator , who runs a boiler room of a semi-automated antiseptic dye factory , having taken the job because it was easy work and non-union , and who manages to annoy everybody except his fiancée . |
| 4 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 5 | A third trend was centred upon growing awareness of the difference between the real world and the way in which environment was perceived because it was such perception which influenced decision-making and therefore management . |
| 6 | She says I did it because it was good fun and I wanted to help people … |
| 7 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 8 | It was raining softly and , because it was early evening , lights were coming on around the airport . |
| 9 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 10 | It should n't have done because it was extra funding it should have been left out but they made |
| 11 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 12 | Kids watched it in their millions every week because it was that rarity : an adult show which listened to their viewpoint . |
| 13 | Because it was that point that erm David Berlow made about howthe Condensed Century was done , where he took the Torino serifs and put them on . |
| 14 | I wondered at the time because it was professional jealousy after all , I suppose . ’ |
| 15 | until took more responsibility because it was outside contractors you see |
| 16 | I only took the term up because it was general conversation in the police force . |
| 17 | For instance , erm because it was all side , Douglas pine , Douglas fir was doing better there than in . |
| 18 | He mistrusted that notion because it was unlike Burun to fail to observe anything accurately . |
| 19 | that 's it yeah , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm vaguely recalling it now because it was six months ago since I saw Mick 's but er , yeah that sounds about right |
| 20 | De la Mare felt Limb could not be received because it was British policy to sustain the Moscow agreement and it would be difficult to see the representative of a leading opponent of the government . |
| 21 | When stardom struck , he was already in his thirties , the hair showed signs of receding and because it was brown Beatty taught him a trick with make-up shadow that reduced the emphasis of an enlarged forehead . |
| 22 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 23 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 24 | He laid the knives out beside the board and then , because it was growing dark , brought the lamp from beside the old ceramic butler sink , trimming the wick before he lit it . |
| 25 | She had never felt such a queer sensation before and was suddenly sad because it was this man who was going to take her innocence away from her . |
| 26 | To this book ‘ must be given the credit for preserving the ideas of equestrian art to the present day , because it was this book that formed the basis of its renaissance ’ . |
| 27 | This study will , therefore , concentrate on the first wave of evacuation during the ‘ phoney war ’ period because it was this stage that caused most controversy . |
| 28 | Because it was sound sense to do so , they looked at other properties for sale . |
| 29 | perhaps because it was some kind of miracle elixir . |