Example sentences of "because it [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It attracted him , he said , because it was closer to painting than any other graphic medium , and because he enjoyed the business of building shapes that interlock , overlap and interplay . |
| 2 | This architecture was adopted because it was simple to build , fitted the theoretical preconceptions of early computer scientists , and seemed to offer the greatest reliability . |
| 3 | This teaching appealed to many ordinary people because it was simple to understand and made Christian obedience appear much easier than it really was . |
| 4 | Perhaps I 'll come to the conclusion [ that ] … that is because it was real . |
| 5 | Like seeing Henry Rollins at Reading was very moving because it was real . |
| 6 | Maybe because it was real . |
| 7 | But , if it 's ringing because it was successful , i.e. the camp on has matured , and you 've chosen not to look at it , then yes you will have to re-input your camp on . |
| 8 | ‘ It used to be really anarchic , but then all sorts of casuals started wearing in and yang on their hooded tops because it was trendy . ’ |
| 9 | As a result work has started on the Blisworth tunnel ( on the Grand Union canal ) , which was closed to navigation because it was dangerous , and a reservoir which feeds the Oxford canal . |
| 10 | ‘ It was difficult to help because it was dangerous for us , you know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |
| 13 | According to Godoy , the government decided on peace in 1795 because it was alarmed by Picornell 's republican conspiracy in Madrid and rumours of republican , pro-French committees in the north . |
| 14 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 15 | Her guides would have lemon squash because it was better for them and less expensive . |
| 16 | It 's not my family you know , ’ because it was better for her to stop . |
| 17 | Because it was pointless to deny that it did . |
| 18 | And I do n't know why these did n't come out terribly maybe because it was stormy and cloudy or whatever but , still . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 21 | This was unexpectedly encouraging , because it was familiar . |
| 22 | The Mirror had last night reportedly dropped Mr Foot 's article because it was critical of the company 's management , said a spokesman for the National Union of Journalists . |
| 23 | It came now because it was applicable . |
| 24 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 25 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 26 | I originally bought it because it was easy to carry around and I figured that it would make a nice practice guitar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because it was easy to launch them , a great diversity of colonies sprang up and usually they were neither compelled by any external danger nor persuaded by any liking for their neighbours to come to closer terms with one another . |
| 29 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 30 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |