Example sentences of "because we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 2 | This is the notion of the constituent power ( ‘ pouvoir constituant ’ — because we do not think along these lines , the English translation sounds strange ) . |
| 3 | The Yek offend you because we do not think you are human . |
| 4 | I am only guessing because we do not talk about things like that . |
| 5 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 6 | A species is a population of interbreeding individuals ; more precisely , because we do not want to regard the blue tits on the Isle of Wight as belonging to a different species to those on the mainland , a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations . |
| 7 | ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run . |
| 8 | Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes . |
| 9 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 10 | If we 're to be , if we end up being audited on that , then we will fail the audit because we do not do that . |
| 11 | But we do not understand the nuances of bird , animal , insect or other creatures , communication , because we do not possess their inward experience of mental meaning . |
| 12 | However , we have not included a poetry strand in the statements of attainment because we do not feel that any pupil should be required to write a poem in order to achieve a particular level of attainment . |
| 13 | Oh what joys we often forfeit , oh what needless pain we bear , all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer . |
| 14 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 15 | We protect older people from harm , real and imaginary , because we do not believe they can protect themselves . |
| 16 | Communication problems arise because we do not listen . |
| 17 | Because we do not wish the world to look upon us . ’ |
| 18 | Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved . |
| 19 | ‘ By using our income in this way , the taxpayer benefits because we do not have to borrow public money via the Treasury , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Because we do not have direct access to the microworld , any measurement involves a chain of amplification by which the state of affairs on the very small scale is made to manifest a corresponding signal in the everyday world of the laboratory . |
| 21 | No , because we do not have time . |
| 22 | Because we do not have a suitable track on which to run a World Superbike round , the idea of running one in England under the Irish flag of convenience was hailed as a lucrative alternative , beneficial to the ACU and MCUI . |
| 23 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 24 | We fail to engage in social marketing because we do not understand it . |
| 25 | James says , in his letter , that we have not because we do not ask . |
| 26 | IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are . |
| 27 | Because we do not know who owns Delion we do not know who bought the property , which raises the question of why the purchasers want to remain anonymous . |
| 28 | We have cultural stereotypes which suggest that such occasions are difficult for us , potentially embarrassing , because we do not know the appropriate responses . |
| 29 | Please give the things to the Station Master , because we do not know which train you come back on . |
| 30 | Beyond that , it makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality , because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory . |