Example sentences of "because [art] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | While the ‘ Last Word ’ column in The Independent on Sunday stated : ‘ Last night the service went off air because the BBC can not afford the annual budget of £5m and is pursuing a policy of cost cutting . |
2 | Fleischmann and Pons ' ideas had been anticipated though for all the wrong reasons , primarily a misguided attempt to make helium to fill airships , and all this because the USA would not sell the gas to postwar Germany . |
3 | They say this would leave them vulnerable to attack , because the UN would not let them receive arms and ammunition through the corridor . |
4 | We are having to stand by and watch a needless massacre because the UN ca n't get its act together . ’ |
5 | All outsiders required protection , so business was good for ‘ the technicals , ’ so named because the UN could not employ gangsters and paid them instead as technical assistants . |
6 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |