Example sentences of "[adj] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of " you know what I mean " is especially interesting because it does not fall into any of the traditional categories of lexis , grammar or phonology . |
| 2 | A recent example is Smith ( 1989 ) , who thinks that Labov 's work is not theoretical because it does not address ‘ any linguistic issue ’ . |
| 3 | Clearly , it is cheaper for them to operate like this because they do not have regular wage bills to pay . |
| 4 | Spenser approves this because it does not drain English resources through having to keep a large standing army in Ireland . |
| 5 | I was very unhappy after this because I did not want to be apart from my Momma . |
| 6 | It is the more important to record this because he did not seek the public eye . |
| 7 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister and all the other Ministers are wrong because they do not live in the real world . |
| 9 | Both types of explanation are rejected as inadequate by the sociologist : the individualistic because it does not recognise the importance of wider social forces acting on the individual which he or she can not control ; the naturalistic because it fails to recognise that behaviour patterns are not primarily biologically determined but rather reflect social conventions that have been learned by individuals as members of social groups or , more generally , society . |
| 10 | There is no virtue in producing socially well-adjusted members of society who are unemployed because they do not have the skills . |
| 11 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 12 | I was nervous because I did not have any friends and I was worried that I would be on my own . |
| 13 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 14 | The last three may be combined in so-called grand unified theories , or GUTs , which are not very satisfactory because they do not include gravity and because they contain a number of quantities , like the relative masses of different particles , that can not be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit observations . |
| 15 | The main criticisms of QALYs focus on two central points : firstly , that QALYs are unfair because they do not take into account who gains the QALYs ; secondly , that ‘ welfare ’ is not the only value to be put into the equation . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run . |
| 17 | But when the First Test came the tour selectors , with Stewart naturally taking the dominant role , decided that Mains was suspect because he did not have the speed to cover the hard South African grounds when the ball was loose . |
| 18 | CD 's early agreements with Macrone , Bentley , and Chapman & Hall were unsatisfactory because they did not take into account the rapidly increasing value of his writings . |
| 19 | Cox argued that the interception had been unlawful because it did not meet the published criteria regulating such interceptions . |
| 20 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 21 | You should not need to feel inadequate because you do not understand all the technical terms of someone else 's profession . |
| 22 | However , the algorithms are admissible because they do not prune any of the arcs at B , and may backtrack to them later . |
| 23 | Nearly half of these people never attend a place of worship and quite often they are unwilling to use religious language at all because they do not want to be associated with a particular religious institution . |
| 24 | The idea is perhaps implausible because it does not explain why ageing is associated with pathological changes , which would have been the ancestral state under Hamilton 's theory . |
| 25 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 26 | Charles Boag-Thomson , QC , for the father , said to the girl : ‘ Daddy tells me he is very upset because he did not do these things . ’ |
| 27 | Have no doubt in your mind about that because we did not take one of our representatives to negotiate with the guard force to enhance your and their membership that is not the ball game I 'm not playing it and we wo n't do that and you can rest assured we will pursue it to Bridlington if need be . |
| 28 | Northern Ireland Members were disadvantaged because they did not have the information and could not comment . |
| 29 | Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem . |
| 30 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |