Example sentences of "not because they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then they hesitate in doubt , not because they spot a new snag about believing but because they remember a previous experience . |
| 2 | Families above three children , and less than two , are more frequent in the manual social classes , especially class V. Manual workers have higher average fertility because they are more likely to have big families , not because they avoid having really small ones . |
| 3 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 4 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 5 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 6 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 7 | If the war brought them more into line with popular feeling , then it was not because they had changed , but because popular opinion ( or at least the Liberal-Labour part of it ) had at last seen the light . |
| 8 | Not because they had reached land , the line of tall thin houses beyond the quay , but because they had docked in French . |
| 9 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 10 | Colin Hughes and Patrick Wintour , who wrote Labour Rebuilt , describe his communications strategy in terms of the Labour Party : ‘ Mandelson and Gould succeeded , not because they exploited slick advertising and media management more effectively than the Conservatives , but because they forged themselves an approach to political strategy which has never before been seen — certainly in the Labour Party , and arguably , ever in British politics . |
| 11 | The inhibitors might therefore be causing amnesia not because they prevent protein synthesis but because of their effect on increasing amino acid levels . |
| 12 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 13 | Not because they try to sell us Maastricht as economic salvation , privatisation as good for the NHS and John Selwyn Gummer as a vibrant personality . |
| 14 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 15 | Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment . |
| 16 | Over Maurice 's allegations , Unionists voted under no illusions ; Maurice had indicted Law as well as Lloyd George , and a packed meeting of the UWC under Carson resolved to back the government , not because they believed its explanations but because of their belief in the war . |
| 17 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 18 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 19 | These junior institutions are the preparatory schools of the prisons , not because they train criminals , but because they train youngsters to cope with a regime which denies tenderness , warmth and the right to weep with and for your own pain . |
| 20 | The important point here is that Aristotle 's women are not autonomous , not because they lack abilities or capacities but because they lack authority ; that is , their right to make decisions , to speak for themselves is not acknowledged . |
| 21 | This is not because they lack interest , or are unrepresented in Britain : neither of these is true . |
| 22 | Not because they granted its continued necessity , your sanction will continue providing someone else pays . |
| 23 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 24 | But the funny thing which strikes many young people is that they are being made scapegoats , then it is certainly not because they 've had it so good . |
| 25 | It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations . |
| 26 | Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me . |
| 27 | Mother says : People only lose because they 're not strong enough , not because they do n't want to fight or are n't good at fighting . |
| 28 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 29 | Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge . |
| 30 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |