Example sentences of "not because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 2 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 3 | But the claims of programmes must be scrutinized carefully , not because they offer wrong answers but because they assume that there are answers . |
| 4 | What I get out of these ads is a feeling that it may be time to ban all beer commercials from television , but not because they encourage young people to drink . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 6 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 7 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |