Example sentences of "but because [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
| 2 | But if one no longer hears too much about the nostalgia movie , it 's not because the genre has disappeared , but because its visual tics and tropes have so infiltrated the cinema 's textures that no one now feels the need to make any specific allusion to it . |
| 3 | He justifies this argument not through reference to rock 's mass public but because its quasi-oral modes of composition and dissemination result , he says , in collective authorship lose links between musicians and audiences , constant variation of materials , and a spontaneous , ‘ Dionysian ’ approach to performance . |
| 4 | Poetic speech does not differ from ordinary speech just because it may include constructions or vocabulary not found in everyday language ( the lo ! s thous and word-order inversions conventionally allowed in English poetry ) , but because its formal devices ( such as rhyme and rhythm ) act on ordinary words to renew our perception of them , and of their sound texture in particular . |
| 5 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 6 | In general most of these new venues pay derisory fees , not because they are wicked scheming capitalists , but because their economic set-up forces them to do so . |
| 7 | We are not unfamiliar with situations where the best we can do in practice is to assign probabilities , not because events are fundamentally acausal but because their detailed mechanism lies at a level too deep to be accessible to us . |
| 8 | There was another roar of laughter when the old lady , her voice changing , said , ‘ All right , I will behave , not because you tell me to but because our dear Henry here will die of shock in a moment . ’ |