Example sentences of "[verb] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 2 | The European Athletic Association ( EAA ) have said that Jackson 's European 110-metre hurdles record of 13.06 secs , set at Crystal Palace in July , will not count because he did not have the mandatory post-race drugs test . |
| 3 | Policy-makers can not maximize because they do not have the requisite information ; instead they satisfice , that is , choose a course of action which is good enough to meet their desires . |
| 4 | Brian Horton says he does n't honestly know because he does not know how much money he 's got available |
| 5 | The expenditure required is borne by the local authorities and occurs because they do not have sufficient suitable housing in a state of good repair . |
| 6 | Another gave me a slice of dark brown bread with a piece of sausage on the top which I ate because I did not want to hurt his feelings . |
| 7 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 8 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 9 | Of all the arguments the Chancellor deploys , the most powerful is the contention that the deficit does not matter because it does not represent borrowing by the public sector — in effect the deficit is all in the private sector . |
| 10 | Low-paid white-collar couples who are buying their own homes did not claim because they did not realise they were eligible . |
| 11 | She can not see because she does not wish to see . |
| 12 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 13 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 14 | They find it harder to appreciate the successes of the mentally handicapped because they do not conform to their concept of success . |
| 15 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 16 | It does not work because it does not meet the problems of intervention . |
| 17 | Multi-strand , flexible , steel cable is particularly suited to winching because it does not kink so easily . |
| 18 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 19 | He appeared to be dozing because he did not notice her approach , nor open his eyes , until she had parted the branches and was looking down at him . |
| 20 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 21 | The unrepentant cities will be condemned because they did not turn from their sins despite his mighty works ( Matt. |
| 22 | Political analysts stated that Borja was able to make the land grants because he did not face re-election . |
| 23 | I had to change the A-level economics syllabus to take account of yet more dotty ideas that poured out of the Department of Economic Affairs , of national plans that were revised because they did not work and of huge methods of distributing money through regional policy , where more than half the country was part of a development area . |
| 24 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 25 | In relation to a repetition test , he argues that the negro children who failed because they did not repeat the teacher 's utterance in the same form were really being failed for a different attitude to surface detail . |
| 26 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 27 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 28 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 29 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 30 | That has been provided because it does not require planning permission . |