Example sentences of "[noun sg] but because [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 2 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 3 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |
| 4 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 5 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 6 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 7 | Not , thought Tim , because she greatly cared for his welfare but because she liked interfering . |
| 8 | The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene . |
| 9 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 10 | Not because I wanted to go back to my childhood but because I had a deep , healthy interest in finding out a bit more about what was happening while I was growing up . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Walter Sanders expressed indignation at Labour 's scheme to provide nursery schools , not merely because of the cost but because he thought mothers should look after children at that age . |
| 12 | I believed him to mean that he climbed trees not for enjoyment but because he felt danger was his natural environment . |
| 13 | He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him . |
| 14 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 15 | From his own mouth they understood that , regardless of ethnic or regional or age identity , they would have to surrender nothing in order to gain a great deal : that alliance need not produce merger or submergence , that even racist habits of mind became beside the point — you could vote for ‘ the nigger ’ not because you wanted a Black man in your family but because you thought he might save your family farm . |