Example sentences of "because they [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They did not deserve to be taken seriously because they did not take seriously the main currents of the culture they were attacking . |
| 4 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 5 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 6 | He said many people who were given council houses subsequently lost them because they did not know how to pay the rent and cope with bills . |
| 7 | ‘ They lost the elections because they did not act quickly enough . |