Example sentences of "[noun sg] because it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband does not like the car because it does not reflect his status . |
| 2 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 3 | stop the tape because it does n't want me on it . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , this second is not a proper rule because it does not end with a single well defined action . |
| 5 | It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries . |
| 6 | RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture . |
| 7 | Chairman Mao and his little red book actually sort of advocated table tennis because it did n't take up paddy fields ; it was very economical ; you can stick 10 tables in a canteen , so it was very much conducive to the communist way of life and of course , China … |
| 8 | The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use . |
| 9 | If a vehicle fails the test because it does not have a vehicle identification number , MoT testers will advise motorists to get in touch with the local Vehicle Registration Office , which can allocate a new number . |
| 10 | This was not an offence under the Act because it does not extend to the domestic situation and a club having a private membership enjoys a private or domestic status . |
| 11 | But erm the forty six is an artificial figure , it represents neither the capacity of the city nor the calculated needs , so I would not wish to er have this figure of forty six in our York plan because it does n't actually relate to either . |
| 12 | They distrusted predictions about the far reaches of the universe because it did not seem they could be tested by observation . |
| 13 | Erm so erm but of course I mean t to make the point because it does n't really contradict what you 're saying Heather because of course the rather more extreme kinds of Protestant Sects that do emphasise for example erm er narrow dogmatic teaching much more so you could say that erm and I think this would perhaps be the answer to , to Oliver 's point to some extent because it goes back to Dean 's original point that erm here we 're we we 're talking about a general theory of groups , but of course some groups can be more groupie than others . |
| 14 | It does not want to recognise this specific clash because it does not want to recognise that the entire common agricultural policy rests on a bigger fraud : systematic overproduction of food in Europe , paid for by Europe 's taxpayers to please a powerful lobby , Europe 's farmers . |
| 15 | This is an important conclusion because it applies not only to the Benguela ecosystem off the coast of southern Africa , but to all marine ecosystems where marine mammals are perceived to be competing with commercial fisheries . |
| 16 | Hi-Tech , which has told the court it is willing to collect the £100-per-decoder viewing fee because it does not wish to ‘ kill the goose that lays the golden egg ’ is now restricted to fulfilling its existing orders for decoders pending the further hearing in the New Year . |
| 17 | It could be argued that the west lost the golden opportunity to contribute to the peaceful solution of the Balkan crisis because it did not de-recognise Yugoslavia ( and , with it , outlaw the Yugoslav army ) , while recognising all the six former Yugoslav republics before the war started in earnest . |
| 18 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 19 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 20 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 21 | PASSENGERS will boycott a new Teesside rail service because it does not stop at Eaglescliffe station , a Stockton councillor claims . |
| 22 | Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long . |
| 23 | This form of markup provides the flexibility to select different display styles for the text because it does not anticipate the typography of the New OED . |
| 24 | Yes I did — when English Lit was over I read my last sentence before she collected the papers , and it said , ‘ Julius Caesar is a filthy no-good rubbishy play because it does n't have enough women in it . |
| 25 | Military expenditure is seen as dysfunctional for the overall performance of the economy because it does not directly contribute to the balance of payments . |
| 26 | The system 's friendly to the environment because it does n't use any machinery . |
| 27 | The atoms are all ‘ frozen ’ into the random positions they occupied in the liquid , producing a material which is neither crystal nor liquid : not crystal because it does n't have an ordered structure , not liquid because it does n't flow . |
| 28 | This is most effectively demonstrated in the case of Sony 's Walkman , where the bass sound you hear is in effect a trick created by using cross-frequencies to ‘ synthesise ’ low bass in the mini-headphones ; it sounds low , but out loud there would be no real impact because it does n't actually exist ! |
| 29 | Slater pointed to the Motorola 88110 — not yet formally announced due to some lingering problems — as ‘ perhaps the best of the current crop of microprocessors ’ , adding that it is a shame that it wo n't make an impact because it does n't have the customers . |
| 30 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |