Example sentences of "[not/n't] because it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the 2 million who belong to the National Trust ( one of the fifteen ) do so for the sake of visiting the houses it preserves , not because it is green . |
| 2 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 3 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 4 | Majorese can sometimes be almost equally hard to follow ; but this is not because it is deceptive . |
| 5 | The foetus may become handicapped not because it is genetically abnormal or have a metabolic defect , but because it contracts a disease or infection while in the womb . |
| 6 | The culture industry is corrupt ; not because it is a sinful Babylon but because it is a cathedral dedicated to elevated pleasure … |
| 7 | Not because it is difficult . |
| 8 | Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process . |
| 9 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |
| 10 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 11 | Engineers often introduce into factories new electronic machinery not because it is better than the old methods but to give management the upper hand over the workers |
| 12 | The USSR copies the West simply because it is much cheaper and easier , not because it is inherently backward . |
| 13 | The simulated male orgasm has attracted very little attention by comparison with its female equivalent , not because it is n't as common , but because it 's in no one 's interest to publicize the fact . |
| 14 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 15 | Then people will do the environmentally ‘ correct' thing , not because it is thought to be the moral , but rather the practical , thing to do . ’ |
| 16 | It is clearly important that we understand the basic outlook of an individual , not because it is necessarily right , but because it determines the way that individual behaves . |
| 17 | One individual may be more likely to survive because it is better suited to making its way about its environment and not because it is fiercer than others . |
| 18 | Even simple activities , such as the right way to hold and use a pair of scissors , may need to be shown to a pupil with very poor vision , not because it is beyond the child 's capacity , but because defective vision may make it difficult to see exactly how to manipulate utensils and objects without precise demonstration on how to do so . |
| 19 | To officials and apparatchiks obsessed with this legacy of backwardness , the West is advanced because it is the West , not because it is capitalist . |
| 20 | ‘ A shot from Charlton , especially if hit on the run from outside the penalty area , is one of the great events of the sport , not because it is rare , which it is not , but because the power of it is massive and it erupts out of elegance , ’ Arthur Hopcraft , who followed Charlton 's career from shy schoolboy to elder statesman , wrote in his classic account of the English game , The Football Man . |
| 21 | Bradley and Gelb find against that possibility : Not , then , a special case ; successful not because it is Basque , but essentially because it is co-operative . |
| 22 | I quote the case of my own area of the Wirral , again not because it is unique , but rather for the very opposite reason . |
| 23 | A major problem is that many people visit a wildlife site , not because it is one , but because it provides access and a car park . |
| 24 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 25 | ‘ Gavin , ’ noted McGeechan , ‘ speaks to everyone — senior players , new caps , replacements , whoever — not because it is the thing to do but because that 's the kind of bloke he is . |
| 26 | Enid : You should n't because it is wrong . |