Example sentences of "[coord] because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 2 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 3 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu casually approved these , either as a generous host or because he did not recognize the value of rococo or recherché items . |
| 5 | He did not , but she did not know whether he was silent about the assault on her because it would upset Barbara Coleman to hear of it , or because he did not want the Josephs to know . |
| 6 | And because they did not consider themselves sinners therefore in their own understanding they were not lost . |
| 7 | The crop must be cut before it is dead ripe to avoid shedding of grain , and because it does not stand in the sheaf to harden , it usually requires artificial drying . |
| 8 | The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority . |
| 9 | What it most certainly is not , is ownership by national or local public authority : and because it does not look to the Government as its banker and so imposes no liability on the public sector borrowing requirement , it provides no levers for a hypothetical State economic planning agency to handle . |
| 10 | Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant . |
| 11 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 12 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 13 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 14 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 15 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |
| 16 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 17 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 18 | Most of the houses exhibited ‘ No Vacancy ’ signs — not because they were full but because they did not want to be bothered by the stray dogs of winter . |
| 19 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |
| 20 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 21 | He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre , but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on . |
| 22 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 23 | But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process . |
| 24 | To confuse the order of these levels or to omit one or more of them is dangerous — not because our faith is then invalid but because it does not rest on the strongest available foundations . |
| 25 | We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency . |
| 26 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |