Example sentences of "because it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the pairing family co-existed fairly easily with the gens , because it was not a formal organized institution as was the gens , and so the implications of the gens for such things as property and politics remained unchallenged . |
| 2 | The bridegroom moved out of the throng and Wexford felt a strange sentimental pang because it was not Jack Pertwee . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that the supplying was insufficient as an unlawful act because it was not ‘ directed at ’ V. Subsequent decisions are unclear whether the ‘ directed at ’ test remains good law , and a better approach to the facts of Dalby would be to hold that the supplying of drugs did not cause the death because V took them himself . |
| 4 | Yet , perhaps because it was not televised , it produced mighty little stir . |
| 5 | Thames 's equally well-meaning programme , Adoption — All for the Sake of the Children ( ITV ) , fell down because it was not about real people , only about actors pretending to be real people . |
| 6 | It clearly existed in Bedfordshire , because of Shearman 's perception of its importance ; it was evident in the Kettering scheme because Miss Green instinctively knew its significance to fellow disadvantaged adults ; it appears not to have emerged in East Suffolk possibly because it was not assiduously pursued . |
| 7 | He went on to explain that the construction of the links would cost £2,000 plus , and the purchase price of the land — about 100 acres — another £4,000 , and according to the Standard , he thought ‘ Some of the tradesmen of Henley would probably be induced to invest £100 in it , because it was not like asking people to make a donation of £100 . |
| 8 | His son , the present Lord Rathcreedan , born 1905 , recalls that his parents came to Henley in 1910 specifically for the golf and because it was not far from London . |
| 9 | Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger . |
| 10 | Its potential use was limited because it was not absorbed from the gut and so was ineffective if given by mouth , and because tyrocidine , in concentrations liable to occur during therapeutic use , damaged or destroyed red blood cells . |
| 11 | He could not mention it because it was not known in the Latin West before the revival of learning in the ‘ renaissance of the twelfth century ’ ( a useful term due to the American medievalist Charles Homer Haskins , who introduced it in 1927 ) . |
| 12 | Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence . |
| 13 | The authors warn that the data need to be treated with caution because it was not clear how many of the farms surveyed had substantial numbers of permanent workers for whom schools or adult education should be provided . |
| 14 | Because it was not possible to privatise CNP itself , part of the EPSI deal involved a management contract under which the consortium would rent CNP production facilities . |
| 15 | Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one . |
| 16 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 17 | It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine . |
| 18 | The inquiry would show the American at the listening-post in the basement apartment did not move because it was not his job to move . |
| 19 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 20 | I do n't know why I apologised because it was not my fault that the Crowninshield twins were cocaine freaks , nor that their father wanted to charter Wavebreaker , but I sympathised with Ellen 's distaste for cocaine and was foolish enough to say as much . |
| 21 | Brian had chosen Bath as a place to which he would take Celia the following weekend , partly because it was not too far away and partly because he remembered how happy they had been there before . |
| 22 | Nearly two people in every five questioned thought that this scene would be acceptable to show , mainly because it was not over-explicit . |
| 23 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 24 | A CANCER victim who made a dying wish for a slice of toast was turned down by hospital staff … because it was not on their menu . |
| 25 | The correct character may often have a lower confidence because it was not such a good match with the Freeman database . |
| 26 | They were useless words , meaningless now because it was not all right , mam was dead . |
| 27 | NCR lost because it was not prepared to develop yet another generation of the 9800 — derived from the company 's Criterion line , which dates back to 1976 . |
| 28 | Hence defence was not an issue because it was not discussed , since Sweden 's neutrality clashed with the NATO membership of Denmark and Norway . |
| 29 | This attitude contributed to serious misjudgements in the immediate post-war period because it was not counteracted by radical institutional change as a result of the war . |
| 30 | But Intel insists that DEC was still showing interest in marketing the follow-on Paragon machine and that it pulled the plug on the deal because it was not satisfied with DEC 's level of commitment . |