Example sentences of "not because [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We are not as accomplished as the best German orchestras , and this is not because we are bad string players , but simply because we 're a kind of pot pourri , we have all kinds of different string styles in England . |
| 2 | Young women now stay in the Islands not because there is limited opportunity to marry soldiers , but because they play a full and equal part in a full-employment economy . |
| 3 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State had already said future applications to build power stations would be considered on their own merit and not because there was spare capacity . |
| 5 | Not because he 's big time with a name and an image , but because he 's learned his trade . |
| 6 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |