Example sentences of "because this [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 2 | He adds : ‘ It should be noted that much of the evidence deals only with cancer of the stomach , because this was the subject of the original claims . |
| 3 | The house was called Gibbet Hall ; not because this was the name the Swift family had chosen but because a long time ago enemy prisoners had been tied to the tree outside the front gate and threatened with hanging . |
| 4 | It was because this was the case that the British were largely favourable to the foundation of the Empire . |
| 5 | The colour black in all such cases was considered especially lucky because this was the colour associated with the occult practices , but herein lies a transatlantic contradiction for , in America , it is the white cat that is lucky and the black cat that is unlucky . |
| 6 | She was excited because this was the first time that de Levantiére had followed the New Look that was capturing the world but was still hard to come by in England because of clothes rationing . |
| 7 | This proved a great success , not least because this was the first time that paintings by Jackson Pollock had been exhibited in Europe . |
| 8 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 9 | Beta Boo¨tis ( 3.5 ) is the nearest fairly bright star to the radiant of the meteor shower seen in early January , known as the Quadrantid shower because this was the region of a constellation , Quadrans ( the Quadrant ) which was proposed by J. E. Bode in 1775 but which has been deleted from modern maps . |
| 10 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 11 | Because this was the contraption 's trial run , it was to be driven manually by turning the big wheel . |
| 12 | For Lenin firms had to move overseas because this was the only way they could guarantee the cheap raw materials and the effective demand for their commodities once international competition had increased and the costs of innovation had reduced the rate of profits to be made at home . |
| 13 | Not because she was a clairvoyant forecasting trends which suddenly came true , but because this was the moment when her consistently held belief that clothes were part of an overall way of living was now applauded by the market . |
| 14 | Now she was about to enter a stronghold , because this was the count 's world , his kingdom behind the mountains , and the grim satisfaction on his face told her he was well aware of it . |
| 15 | It was , however , more parasite than exploiter , and had to defend state property because this was the source of its power and income . |
| 16 | In fact I bit silly because this was the only room I did n't bother to finish round the windows and round the doorway . |
| 17 | This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him . |
| 18 | I was a mixture of desperately upset and very excited , because this was the first physical sign , apart from throwing up , about what was going on . |