Example sentences of "[vb infin] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Brian Horton says he does n't honestly know because he does not know how much money he 's got available |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Low-paid white-collar couples who are buying their own homes did not claim because they did not realise they were eligible . |
| 7 | She can not see because she does not wish to see . |
| 8 | It does not work because it does not meet the problems of intervention . |
| 9 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 10 | The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself . |
| 11 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 12 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |