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 . |