Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] not believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 2 | Now I am not myself a Christian because I do not believe that there could be this particularity . |
| 3 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |
| 4 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't believe in life after death because I do not believe in our limited concept of time . ’ |
| 6 | I include due process as a separate virtue because I do not believe it collapses into either of the others as I describe these , but my arguments in this and the following chapters will pay much more attention to fairness and justice , and I shall mainly ignore procedural due process . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Because I do not believe Rastani 's conversion to our faith was genuine . |
| 8 | Pete , of Bruton , Somerset , said yesterday : ‘ I laughed at first because I did not believe it . |
| 9 | God speaks to Moses again and to Aaron : ‘ Because you did not believe in me , to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel , therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them . ’ |
| 10 | We protect older people from harm , real and imaginary , because we do not believe they can protect themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some may be misinformed because they misread their newspaper , or because their paper prints inaccurate information , or even because they do not believe what is printed in their paper . |
| 13 | They reject the Devil because they do not believe in him . |
| 14 | Some people do not believe in Jesus because they do not believe in the miracles . |
| 15 | A patient who believes his delusional thinking may not be in a position to give an informed refusal of medication , because he does not believe he is ill . |
| 16 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |