Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] not because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 2 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |
| 3 | It 's not because we could n't have done it . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not because I have ambitions to say ‘ I 'm in charge ’ , ’ says the man who started work as a researcher on the Jimmy Young radio show . |
| 5 | It 's not because he 's Italian , she 's not a racist , she slices our legs off as well if we 're not careful . |
| 6 | But this time , all that is gone ; and it 's not because you have aged a lot , or changed . |
| 7 | It 's not because he is sick and tired of talking to people ( which would be understandable ) , it is because he is truly very , very shy . |
| 8 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
| 9 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
| 10 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm the highest paid driver today — it 's not because of my skin colour , my eyes , my hair or anything , it 's because it 's worth paying me the money . |
| 12 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 13 | It 's not because I want applause , or paragraphs in the paper , or my name in coloured lights in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 14 | ‘ If the chairman keeps me , it 's not because he thinks I 'm a good chap or the world 's a nicer place when I 'm here . |
| 15 | I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker . |
| 16 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 17 | Erm well what I , what happens , I think that 's good , it 's act it 's not , it 's not inside because it 's encapsulated , it 's not inside because it 's held in there by the socket joint if I draw , draw you a picture , it 's not because the socket joint is so tight it ca n't fall out , is that what you 're saying to me ? |
| 18 | But if one no longer hears too much about the nostalgia movie , it 's not because the genre has disappeared , but because its visual tics and tropes have so infiltrated the cinema 's textures that no one now feels the need to make any specific allusion to it . |
| 19 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |
| 20 | ‘ Jane , my darling , it 's not because she 's mad that I hate her . |
| 21 | But it 's not because I 'm ill , ’ she added , with a note of self-importance and pleasure that Caterina could not help noticing . |
| 22 | It 's not because of the explosion : it 's not delayed shock , or anything like that . |
| 23 | It 's not because we ca n't get anybody else , it 's because we want to involve you . |
| 24 | It appears that it 's not because of your wonderful reputation , it 's because you 're a woman . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not because they 're communist , ’ he says . |
| 26 | It 's not because they ca n't have sex , it 's because they do n't want to . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not because you 're loaded that I worry after you , ’ she shouted . |
| 28 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 29 | It 's not because I 'm not with every bronchial breath |
| 30 | No , no it 's not because B T all over the country is n't it |