Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] not because " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 2 | But this time , all that is gone ; and it 's not because you have aged a lot , or changed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | And it is n't because the workers wo n't work hard enough , not when three million do n't even have the chance . |
| 6 | I began to sweat , and it was not because of the boy 's weight . |
| 7 | And it was n't because you suddenly remembered you were in love with another man , because you 're not the kind of girl who plays away from home . |
| 8 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 9 | But it is n't because you care about animals . |
| 10 | But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous . |
| 11 | ‘ And you have your Steve back , ’ he accused darkly , ‘ and it should be enough to satisfy us all , but it is n't because sometimes affairs leave behind a tangled web of anguish . |
| 12 | But it 's not because I 'm ill , ’ she added , with a note of self-importance and pleasure that Caterina could not help noticing . |