Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang a sample of local authorities , but , because I prefer not to err on the side of scaremongering , I gave a figure of 20 to 25 per cent . |
| 2 | Nour had laughed because I had not heard of Herodotus . |
| 3 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 4 | Because I had not come to make a personal contribution I was able to see Africa with open eyes . |
| 5 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 6 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 7 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 8 | Firstly because I hate not working and I have n't worked as a club DJ for eight years , so this was a way back in . |
| 9 | Alec you have mine love because I 've not made enough tea |
| 10 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because I do not want to influence the mind of the patient in any way , the phrase I usually employ is : ‘ Go to wherever your subconscious mind feels comfortable . ’ |
| 13 | I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Whatever they do will personally sadden me because I do not want to see my constituency chopped up , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I do not want us to stop being friends . |
| 17 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 18 | Mrs Margaret Charles , living 200 yards from the crash , said : ‘ I am furious because I do not think pilots should just bale out and let the plane go on and crash into a village . |
| 19 | It is not certain , therefore , whether the rule in Quenerduaine v. Cole would apply , though on the whole I think it would , because I do not think that a court would speculate on the reasons that moved B to telegraph rather than write . |
| 20 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 21 | I froze not because I am not proud to have worked for my company , and indeed consider myself fortunate to have done so — and not because I do not admire my company and put everything that I can into serving it . |
| 22 | I am not a Christian because I do not credit , as I earlier put it , that nature and history could be other than closed causal nexuses or believe that there can be events which are in some way qualitatively different from other events . |
| 23 | Because I do not hold the appropriate resource in hand , whatever she 's got , very helpful is n't it ? |
| 24 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 25 | Now I am not myself a Christian because I do not believe that there could be this particularity . |
| 26 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |
| 27 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't believe in life after death because I do not believe in our limited concept of time . ’ |
| 29 | I include due process as a separate virtue because I do not believe it collapses into either of the others as I describe these , but my arguments in this and the following chapters will pay much more attention to fairness and justice , and I shall mainly ignore procedural due process . ) |
| 30 | ‘ Because I do not believe Rastani 's conversion to our faith was genuine . |