Example sentences of "because it did [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 2 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 3 | It is much better to try a simpler design and to be thrilled with the results rather than try something more complicated and then feel despondent because it did n't work . |
| 4 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 5 | So , because it did n't ‘ take advantage of customers when times were good ’ , it now has the long-term advantage of customer loyalty . |
| 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 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 8 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 9 | And it would be excluded from the greenbelt because it did n't serve a greenbelt function ? |
| 10 | Then she said , ‘ Eduardo , ’ because it did n't matter much whether he knew or not . |
| 11 | Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long . |
| 12 | ‘ The dog was curious because it did n't bark in the night , when it should have done . |
| 13 | Richard ignored this because it did n't seem to him quite to the point . |
| 14 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 15 | Lavinia wanted to say she was sorry for Timothy Gedge , but did not because it did n't seem true . |
| 16 | Probably , she thought , because it did n't matter enough to him . |
| 17 | Because it did n't do at all well there . |
| 18 | It did n't matter , the other half did n't matter because it did n't come into contact really with the with the shaft . |
| 19 | Any set of questions which allowed most people to be at the top , and only a few further down , would be rejected as useless , because it did n't ‘ discriminate ’ ( to use the pseudo-scientific jargon ) . |
| 20 | It was not something I 'd ever discuss with Michael , because it did n't interest him . ’ |
| 21 | It was funny because it did n't go runny like mud . |
| 22 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 23 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 24 | got a very low test statistic either in terms of kie or F right so we have n't reached but the model is still a poor model because we do n't have erm er stable parameters , right , so you would actually reject this model as it stands , alright , because it did n't pass the diagnostic test statistics but there is no point generating parameters w if they , if they are not constant and you 're gon na say elastic demand is one point four six or really it it 's ranged between minus three plus , plus six over the sample , so you put estimate means so it must have constant parameters . |
| 25 | And this application of standard formula upset Selby for reasons we heard this morning , and it upsel =set us because it did n't seem to be taking the real situation into account . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | It claims Michael Heseltine wrote two letters to SFV saying he 'd read the company 's brochure and because it did n't run package holidays there was no need for insurance . |
| 28 | He 's not gon na get anything because it did n't finish in the first three but it was two hundred to one each way , he had two pound each way on it |
| 29 | But that was where the trouble was because it did n't toast properly . |
| 30 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |