Example sentences of "[not/n't] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not because of xenophobia , still less ‘ racism ’ ; prudence is the principal consideration . |
| 2 | An overwhelming majority were also in favour of the mixed economy , suggesting that the reformers are opposed not because of their policies , but because of their image . |
| 3 | This failed in the main , not because of violent peasant resistance , but because they were simply too poor to give up any of their potatoes . |
| 4 | It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known . |
| 5 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 6 | His logic seems to be that if he does n't give you any money , he can be sure you 're staying with him because you love him , and not because of his earning power . |
| 7 | ‘ Not because of your lovely mouth , my dear . |
| 8 | British films are too rarely good , not because of national character , but because of a production system that is inadequate to the task of generating a regular output of full-blooded films . |
| 9 | Do you have problems with obesity , he asked the steward on the Desert Wind , the train so called not because of dietary angst but because it crosses the Mojave on the way from LA to Chicago . |
| 10 | But Mr Neil Kinnock , the Opposition leader , insisted that ‘ the rational and constructive ’ tone of the Strasbourg communique occurred ‘ in spite , not because of her . ’ |
| 11 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 12 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |
| 13 | Quite possibly — but not because of present discrimination . |
| 14 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 15 | It is unattainable , not because of the nature of things , but because of the nature of our faculties . |
| 16 | Not because of Beatty as the studio publicity suggests , or the fact that cast and crew have 68 Oscar nominations between them , nor even because Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman have uncredited , subordinate roles in the movie . |
| 17 | Not because of some remarkable upturn in rural shoe-care standards , but because farmers seem to be going to agricultural shows less these days and doing less tyre-kicking when they get there . |
| 18 | There was a second marginal element , this time province-wide , which was suspicious of the leadership , not because of its class interests but because of its lack of evangelical piety . |
| 19 | It was only then I began to grasp that several of these old dears , whose daily habit to foregather here it clearly was , were as drunk as lords and were being helped not because of their age , but because otherwise they would fall down . |
| 20 | Don Anderson , managing director , argued that the financial pressures produced by the failure of one of his biggest customers meant the company was unable to pay on time not because of ‘ culpable default ’ but as a result of ‘ unforseeable and inescapable misfortune . ’ |
| 21 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |
| 22 | BARBADIAN cricket fans are calling for a boycott of tomorrow 's historic Test match , not because of any anti-South African sentiment but as a protest over the omission of local fast bowler Anderson Cummins . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 24 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 25 | This brings us closer to the meaning of a genuine collegiality — management is here seen as a holistic process — touching everything and being carried forward by all teachers as of right and duty , not because of a limited hierarchical view of ‘ delegation ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 28 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 29 | Another Foxy scheming method to miss conscription is to join the Quakers , avoiding being drafted because of religious immunity [ not because of bloating on porridge ] . |
| 30 | Natural selection favours some genes rather than others not because of the nature of the genes themselves , but because of their consequences — their phenotypic effects . |