Example sentences of "[be] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 2 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 3 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |
| 4 | Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes . |
| 5 | " If a prisoner does not escape from here , it is because he does not want to , " said the state government 's acting secretary , Americo Carneiro Paes . |
| 6 | It is because you do not lose touch with your present identity that I hesitate to ask the question ‘ What is your name ? ’ too early in the session ; the patient 's instinct would be to answer by giving me today 's name . |
| 7 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 8 | This is because it does not develop ordinary vertebrae , but contains instead a central rod of cartilage . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 . |
| 10 | Still , something was expected and hoped of me there ; I was credited with a future , and I called some fondness into being , even though this was because they did not know what lay under my surface . |
| 11 | ‘ I honestly believe he did not know who it was because he did not do it . |
| 12 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 14 | It was because he did not know . |
| 15 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 16 | Mahmoud did not say that this was because he did not trust them . |
| 17 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |