Example sentences of "but because [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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' .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre , but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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