Example sentences of "but because they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that are required not for their calorific value , which is negligible , but because they help regulate the body 's metabolism . |
| 2 | Finally , there is a sense in which these two enterprises in London and Edinburgh were perceived as particularly worrying not just because of the social origins of promoters and beneficiaries , or because of the threat to wages , but because they meant bringing women into the work-place . |
| 3 | It was Nimrod , it was Nimrod with Univers , it was , except occasionally there 'd be Grot nine , not because you felt they wanted to use Grot nine , but because they 'd said well what 's this one that has n't got serifs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But because they had taken out a personal accident insurance , they or their beneficiaries received a substantial cash lump sum just when they needed it most . |
| 6 | Not because they had reached land , the line of tall thin houses beyond the quay , but because they had docked in French . |
| 7 | Not just because their popularity has grown naturally and without cartloads of bullshit , but because they 've wheedled their way out of Northern Ireland with a snarling guitar sound that benefits from an invigorating spread of influences — from techno to rap and ambient house to reggae . |
| 8 | And then Helena , Joanne and me would be sleeping over but because they 've got a dog I 'm not going to sleep ! |
| 9 | No wonder that we cheer when we see older generations giving it just one more go , not because they expect to hear bells ringing or lights flashing , but because they want to reach out and feel that reassuring touch or see that reaffirming glance which means they have an ally in the world who uniquely cares that they thrive . |
| 10 | Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge . |
| 11 | It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ . |
| 12 | That looks bad not just because the Government commissioned the report , but because they refuse to address its contents . |
| 13 | As I suggested in chapter one , Christine Brooke-Rose 's first four novels constitute a conceptual prologue to her later work , but because they fail to break with the assumptions of the conventional novel , they are unable adequately to articulate the relation of individual identity to language . |
| 14 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 15 | The chilling pictures of tiny James Bulger being led away to a brutal death have touched millions , not just because of the tragedy that befell a little boy but because they have made people realise how much their own lives have become defiled by fear of crime . |
| 16 | Men have provided us with a false picture of the world … not just because their view is so limited , but because they have insisted that their limited view is the total view . |
| 17 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 18 | And not because the imperialists have become wiser and kinder , but because they have become weaker , because the camp of peace is now strong as never before . ’ |
| 19 | I think it is most likely that the Course will be completed by then but because they have to have their final papers in , the week or two before , it may be that they will be staying on to around that time . |
| 20 | Even when they deal with upper/middle class offenders , as in Columbo , it is not because they have committed corporate crimes , but because they have committed the stereotypical conventional crime of murder . |
| 21 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |