Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not want to operate independently because they are unable to do so . ’ |
| 2 | They would wait five miles ahead , not daring to go further because of my leg . |
| 3 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 4 | ‘ This is one of the biggest road construction contracts ever undertaken in Northern Ireland and we have not had to go overseas because we have the local skills to do it . ’ |
| 5 | But we are not going to condemn merely because we do n't understand . |
| 6 | I knew Mum would not have done so because they did n't get on , although I never found out why . |
| 7 | But I might not wish to do so because I might believe it to be wrong to buy an Italian car for one reason or another . |
| 8 | If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely . |
| 9 | As children , we were not allowed to go there because of the risk of attack from a tiger or leopard , but sometimes , I would follow a group of hunters to trap sambar , muntjac or wild boar . |
| 10 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 11 | ‘ She would n't have gone just because H.B. told her off . |
| 12 | ‘ — that it would n't have counted anyway because he would not have been able to use the words with a true heart . ’ |