Example sentences of "not because they [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 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 3 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the claims of programmes must be scrutinized carefully , not because they offer wrong answers but because they assume that there are answers . |
| 6 | 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 . |