Example sentences of "but because his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |
| 2 | But because his insurance brokers could not match up details from the other driver with her insurance company 's records , Michael lost his no-claims bonus . |
| 3 | The authorities said that Hong Song-dam was not imprisoned merely for sending his paintings to North Korea and books to Koreans in Germany , but because his paintings and contributions to a magazine Art Movement were aimed at promoting a Marxist-Leninist revolution . |
| 4 | They did not snub him because he is too right-wing , but because his government has been incompetent . |
| 5 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |
| 6 | Further documentary evidence of his life and work is scanty , but because his will is listed with those in the parish of St Sepulchre , just outside the walls of the City , it has been suggested that his father may have been William Larkin , the host of the Rose inn in that parish . |
| 7 | She smiled at the baker too , rather warmly , not for the sake of Saturday 's bread bought cheap on Mondays but because his wife detested the Irish in general and that " bold , brazen strumpet from the top of St Jude's ' very much in particular . |
| 8 | But because his work was right in the heart of the the battle zone there were times when he was forced to kill Serbian soldiers , to save his own life and those of his patients . |
| 9 | But because his path was curved downwards — in the third dimension which he could n't see — he landed back where he started , ’ added Gedanken triumphantly . |
| 10 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 11 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 12 | Endill was a little suspicious of Mould , not because of what the Headmaster had said , but because his eyes glowed with a life of their own , as if there was something burning inside his head . |
| 13 | Jean-Claude was inspired to compose by loss ; but because his desire for the past was stronger than his need for fulfilment in the present , his life and work were continually on the brink of dissolution . |
| 14 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 15 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 16 | Errol has been handed a three-game ban by the Ulster Branch 's Disciplinary Committee , after receiving three yellow cards during the season — but because his club have finished their programme , the ban wo n't take effect until the start of next season . |
| 17 | But because his personality was objectionable one held him responsible for his ugliness — it became impossible to overlook it . |
| 18 | But because his value is limited to £1.5 million — another stipulation in the contract which first allowed him to move to Sampdoria — there is room for additional bonuses and signing on payments to be made available to him . |
| 19 | It is not simply because Mr Murdoch interferes with editorial policy , which he does , but because his staff , from the moment they are employed , know what is expected of them . |