Example sentences of "[coord] because [pron] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 2 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 5 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 6 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 7 | But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process . |