Example sentences of "[adv] because they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Many families are struggling on , perhaps because they do n't want to consider residential care or because the right sort of care is n't available , ’ said Bill Barker .
2 There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it .
3 I went in alone because they do n't know you .
4 It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral .
5 Well they do n't they keep there prices down because they did n't spend a lot on advertising .
6 They should n't be worn all day long because they do n't provide the support young feet need .
7 Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on .
8 I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why .
9 So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium !
10 It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes .
11 Erm so many people throw marks away because they do n't put thing down things that are obvious .
12 Just because they do n't know what it socialism
13 not intimidated but just because they do n't know who we are .
14 If you 'd rather see someone than not , you do n't say no when they do turn up , just because they do n't come more often . ’
15 They 're all added in just because they do n't have an accident does n't might go for making it the safest infrastructure perhaps .
16 All the crew here think the Indians are fantastically primitive just because they do n't have radios .
17 I 'm not going to stop dressing the way I want to just because they do n't like it , but it 's discouraging .
18 He does n't drop them just because they do n't buy .
19 Mother says : People only lose because they 're not strong enough , not because they do n't want to fight or are n't good at fighting .
20 This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured .
21 Limited — not because they did n't want to care , they just did n't know how to care for this type of patient … .
22 When mink and otters manage to share a habitat — and , on both sides of the Atlantic , they often do — it 's usually because they do n't compete too much for food .
23 There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time .
24 ‘ That 's partly because , being unaccustomed to serious illness , they ca n't believe something like that can happen to them , partly because they do n't want to believe it .
25 no it 's probably because they do n't buy her any .
26 The families are suffering badly because they do n't earn enough to live on .
27 The bank automatically thinks he 's doing badly because they do n't hear anything from him .
28 At first they suffered great privations — mainly because they did n't have a permanent supply of drinking water — but recently a well has been dug , and today they have houses and solar electricity .
29 Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do n't bother to read the question carefully enough and therefore fail to answer the question that 's posed .
30 well meaning people but I mean the reason they 're saying that is simply because they do n't like what they 're doing full stop .
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