Example sentences of "because they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not be fixed in advance but are conditional on context because they relate not to sentences but to utterances . |
| 2 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , I heard today that in in there 's to be a judicial review on the supposed Trust because they 've not given enough information to the public on which to start their enterprise . |
| 4 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 5 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 6 | Oh right , well definitely not employment staff because they 've not even managed to even |
| 7 | They 've not capitulated because they 've not been prepared to fight , they 've capitulated because there was no coordinated er , organizations to pull them together . |
| 8 | Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished |
| 9 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 10 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 11 | When forty-two railway-workers who defected from Syzran' station were put on trial , their sentence was alleviated because they had not been paid . |
| 12 | It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death . |
| 13 | Work for older women was as badly paid , but for many it was more of a gain because they had not earned at all while their children were young . |
| 14 | Pat also went to see Gildas and Ludens , both of whom were feeling guilty because they had not offered to ‘ put him up ’ . |
| 15 | It rapidly became established because of its immediate appeal to masses of people who were either ‘ pagan ’ , that is , people thus labelled primarily because they had not acquired knowledge of , or held allegiance to , the ‘ god ’ of the Hebrew scriptures , or others who were already questioning the absolute authenticity of the Old Testament as it then was , and were therefore ostracised . |
| 16 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 17 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 18 | When proprietors sold , at any stage , whether antici-pating amalgamation ( like the News Chronicle and Daily Mail ) or a continuing future , they did so because of flagging interest or energy , or because they had not the resources to turn round a weak paper in an increasingly competitive market . |
| 19 | Their experiments were criticised because they had not rigorously excluded unconscious cues that might have been provided by the human trainers , as in the case of the famous German horse , Clever Hans . |
| 20 | Lucien accepted this praise with downcast eyes , aware that the most accomplished of Mandru 's vibrancers were biting their knuckles in shame , because they had not practised diligently enough to emulate Lucien 's glowing performance . |
| 21 | But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents , and refused to let the strange child share their room . |
| 22 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 23 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
| 24 | replied that such students were excluded because they had not passed the Foundation Module , and the NEC was thus complying with the Rules . |
| 25 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |
| 26 | He did that because they had not only annoying his neighbours , sorry , their neighbours , because he had once been one of our neighbours , but also they had damaged his house , and they had already cost him probably about two hundred pounds in repair bills until the house itself , broken doors , window erm the wall , and bit of the roof and so on , and there was every reason to believe that this would just carry on . |
| 27 | ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They were also used in hydraulic systems because they did not react with the materials used in the pipes and pistons . |