Example sentences of "because [pers pn] were the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Labour Government asked those of us in local government to exercise restraint on spending , we did it because they were the Government , and we were the local authority . |
| 2 | Because they were the part , they are the structure of the service as it exists at present . |
| 3 | Such old people may have little embarrassment with each other about bodily functions , perhaps less than some husbands and wives because they were the stuff of taken-for-granted childhood . |
| 4 | Above all , the hospitals actually impeded the patients ' treatment and rehabilitation because they were the object of contempt and fear in the eyes of many people in society — the high walls and isolation symbolizing that the hospitals held society 's rejects . |
| 5 | An important aspect of the slave 's position was the perpetual nature of slavery — slaves were destined to occupy this status throughout their lives , and their children in turn because they were the property of the owner . |