Example sentences of "because we [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time .
2 because we 've not been able to talk to people
3 Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings .
4 And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO .
5 ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said .
6 How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries .
7 Nevertheless to make it really easy to reach your daily dietary fibre target of 30g plus , it is an excellent idea to have one regular , constant daily meal breakfast is ideal because we tend not to vary our breakfasts — to supply about half the requirement .
8 But the rapport between us and the women in the group was instantaneous , probably because we share not just a language and culture but a common experience of racism .
9 ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered .
10 And McHarg seethed : ‘ I am not whingeing because we did not deserve to win , but Dean Richards exploited the offside law right up to its limit . ’
11 ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently .
12 Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’
13 We were , however , unable to provide this important service — either because we did not hold appropriate information in an accessible form or , if it was accessible , we did not have sufficient resources to extract it as required .
14 We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care .
15 We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care .
16 Have no doubt in your mind about that because we did not take one of our representatives to negotiate with the guard force to enhance your and their membership that is not the ball game I 'm not playing it and we wo n't do that and you can rest assured we will pursue it to Bridlington if need be .
17 But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council .
18 A species is a population of interbreeding individuals ; more precisely , because we do not want to regard the blue tits on the Isle of Wight as belonging to a different species to those on the mainland , a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations .
19 Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved .
20 However , we have not included a poetry strand in the statements of attainment because we do not feel that any pupil should be required to write a poem in order to achieve a particular level of attainment .
21 I am only guessing because we do not talk about things like that .
22 ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run .
23 We protect older people from harm , real and imaginary , because we do not believe they can protect themselves .
24 Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes .
25 But we do not understand the nuances of bird , animal , insect or other creatures , communication , because we do not possess their inward experience of mental meaning .
26 Communication problems arise because we do not listen .
27 James says , in his letter , that we have not because we do not ask .
28 IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are .
29 ‘ By using our income in this way , the taxpayer benefits because we do not have to borrow public money via the Treasury , ’ he said .
30 Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ .
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