Example sentences of "[adv] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the clarification request analysis summarized in Table 4.3 show that although the younger children are asking for more straightforward requests for repetition than the other age groups ( perhaps because they do not attend as well as the other subjects ) , there are no significant differences in the other categories . |
| 2 | This feature is barely touched on by Chiaro , perhaps because she does not see her sub-title " word-play " in terms of semantic violations . |
| 3 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 4 | She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough . |
| 5 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 6 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 7 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 8 | Quickly in and out of the sitting-room she slid three hundred pounds from out of her sleeping-bag , not wanting Philip to know how much was there — but only because she did not want anyone to know . |
| 9 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 10 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |
| 11 | Oh what joys we often forfeit , oh what needless pain we bear , all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer . |
| 12 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 13 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 14 | For the poll tax the Government gave councils 18 months to get their computer software in order , but the councils were unable to do so because they did not have the resources and the rules and complexities kept changing . |
| 15 | The verses are meant to explain the fact that the disciples responded to Jesus , but there were many who refused to repent and stand outside because they did not recognise who Jesus was . |
| 16 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 17 | Soon nitrogen , a trace gas that existed in the early Earth 's atmosphere in minute quantities , accumulated to become the dominant gas , largely because it does not combine readily with the other basic four , so it is not ‘ sunk ’ so easily . |
| 18 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
| 19 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 20 | The discourse strategies of a foreign speaker may seem refreshing exactly because they do not conform to conventions of the culture whose language they are learning ; on the other hand they may cause serious misunderstanding and breakdown of communication . |
| 21 | The task force can travel quickly because it does not have to carry support material with it . |
| 22 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 23 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 24 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 25 | Both Mr Boskin 's recent annual economic report and the NES cogently make the case for relying on market forces in energy policy , with the government intervening only when prices are sending obviously wrong signals — usually because they do not reflect such externalities as environmental effects . |
| 26 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 27 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 28 | The supply of carpenters in Scotland will not immediately increase : it takes time to acquire carpentry skills and existing carpenters in other parts of the UK may be reluctant to move away from their own area , partly because of the cost of the move and partly because they do not wish to leave their families and friends . |
| 29 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 30 | Scotland have hardly used any back-row moves in their games to date , maybe because they do not want to put extra pressure on Weir in his first season at No 8 , but also because they do not have the same penetration from the base of the scrum as they have done in previous seasons . |