Example sentences of "because it [was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the one lost creature , he became the saved one because it was made aware that is was lost . |
| 2 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 3 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 4 | Because it was felt necessary to deal with the uncertainties that this would create for those acquiring the interest of a chargee of a company 's assets , and also to enhance the transferability of charges created by companies , section 406 provides that a chargee in exercising a power of sale may dispose of property freed of any interest which has arisen because the charge has become void against an administrator , a liquidator or a person who has acquired an interest in it . |
| 5 | They received your invoice late because it was sent late and it wo n't now be paid until next month . |
| 6 | Van Doren 's excuse to the investigating congressional committee was the most interesting part of the unedifying episode : ‘ I was almost able to convince myself that it did not matter what I was doing because it was having such a good effect on the national attitude to teachers , education and the intellectual life . ’ |
| 7 | Top public sector earners such as judges , senior officials and forces top brass will get a 2.9 per cent rise but only because it was negotiated last year as part of a phased increase for 1992 . |
| 8 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 9 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 10 | Even this was larger than at some other nuclear power stations , because it was thought inappropriate to cut the village of Stogursey in half . |
| 11 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 12 | It was based on the number of dependent children in the family and was provided largely because it was found difficult to recruit men without ensuring some financial security for their families . |
| 13 | It was brought to Burford because it was found unable to feed itself . |
| 14 | I was n't altogether surprised , because it was becoming clear that there were differences , nuances if you will , within the Government about the handling of European issues . |
| 15 | Spelling is often regarded as a totem to be preserved by patriots , rather than a technology , because it was invented thousands of years ago . |
| 16 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |