Example sentences of "because he [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okoye also tends to fumble , because he does not protect the ball enough . |
| 2 | If someone has promised that he will prevent the promisee suffering any loss , and he does cause that no such loss arises from that matter , he does what he promised ; but if he does not , because he does not do what he promised , he is condemned in a sum of money , as happens in all obligations for performance . |
| 3 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to disrupt my speech because he does not want to hear what the country wants to know . |
| 5 | " If a prisoner does not escape from here , it is because he does not want to , " said the state government 's acting secretary , Americo Carneiro Paes . |
| 6 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 7 | A patient who believes his delusional thinking may not be in a position to give an informed refusal of medication , because he does not believe he is ill . |
| 8 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 9 | But still , because he does not bow down before his own popularity , he retains a certain distance . |
| 10 | But , explained John Gapper , the secretary of the Labour and Industrial Correspondents Group : ‘ His office says this is not because he does not like us ’ . |
| 11 | Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course . |
| 12 | the superior will not ‘ panic , because he does not know what is going on . |
| 13 | Brian Horton says he does n't honestly know because he does not know how much money he 's got available |
| 14 | The man who accepts authority is thus said to surrender his private or individual judgment because he does not insist that reasons be given that he can grasp and that satisfy him , as a condition of his obedience . |
| 15 | Supposing the lessor does not want compensation , is the notice to be held bad because he does not ask for it ? |
| 16 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is rather like a child rejecting food he has not tasted because he does not have enough information to make it seem attractive . |
| 19 | ( e ) As we have seen , an intention to repay or substitute may be dishonest because the defendant can not replace the very thing taken , yet if he intends to return the property itself , he is not guilty of theft because he does not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 20 | It could be that Lord Roskill wished in this way to exonerate the mischievous label-switcher , but that person is anyway not guilty of theft because he does not have the mental element . |
| 21 | ‘ The boat will not have proper insurance cover because he does not have the correct safety certificates and if there was an accident or the boat sank , everybody on board would be in trouble . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 24 | Sam found himself completely cut off by his own side of the family , who considered he had married beneath him ; while John had a furious row with him because he did not think Sam good enough for Marie . |
| 25 | He might have said that because he did not think the interview/s with W took the Crown 's case any further . |
| 26 | He did not say that he hoped Floy and Snodgrass were all right , because he did not think he had to say it . |
| 27 | Clem Attlee nationalised the Bank of England because he did not think that we should have rule by central bankers . |
| 28 | He was able to achieve this amount of leisure because he did not intervene much in the work of the Departments . |
| 29 | ‘ Iggy ’ it seems had not settled at Frampton mainly because he did not speak English . |
| 30 | A glint of panic flashed in the boy 's eyes because he did not speak English very well . |