Example sentences of "because they [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to a repetition test , he argues that the negro children who failed because they did not repeat the teacher 's utterance in the same form were really being failed for a different attitude to surface detail . |
| 2 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 3 | Low-paid white-collar couples who are buying their own homes did not claim because they did not realise they were eligible . |
| 4 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 5 | The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . |
| 6 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 7 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 8 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 9 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 10 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 11 | Most of the houses exhibited ‘ No Vacancy ’ signs — not because they were full but because they did not want to be bothered by the stray dogs of winter . |
| 12 | Ballantyne 's boys were very soft when they first saw the pig because they did not want to disturb it when it was sleeping . |
| 13 | Sources close to the Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , said while he welcomed greater US involvement , he had misgivings about the wording of Mr Baker 's proposals , presented orally , because they did not ensure a clear-cut Israeli veto power . |
| 14 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |
| 15 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 16 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 17 | They were also used in hydraulic systems because they did not react with the materials used in the pipes and pistons . |
| 18 | Transport and edge of city shopping centres were not taken into account because they did not exist . |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware , for example , of the considerable number of Territorial Army members who served in the Gulf , including over 20 from the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) , who have been refused their bounty because they did not serve their annual camp — precisely because they were in the Gulf for over 51 days ? |
| 20 | An Inland Revenue spokesman said yesterday the estimates were rejected because they did not match records . |
| 21 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 22 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 23 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 24 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 25 | At the moment , the number of people suffering from flu in Scotland is nowhere near those levels , but one or two football managers may well be feeling ‘ as sick as a parrot ’ because they did not think to have their highly-priced investments vaccinated before the winter began . |
| 26 | In 1992 1,050 members lost the right to call themselves chartered accountants because they did not pay by 30 June . |
| 27 | Two of my constituents , Mr. and Mrs. Bellis , were sent to prison because they did not pay the poll tax . |
| 28 | The unrepentant cities will be condemned because they did not turn from their sins despite his mighty works ( Matt. |
| 29 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 30 | Some studies they suggest may have failed to detect an effect of parity because they did not concentrate on this risk period . |