Example sentences of "[not/n't] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |
| 2 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 3 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
| 4 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 5 | I mean we 're no when we have s like egg and chips , it 's cos we want to , not because we 've got to . |
| 6 | Not because we have a vested interest , personal or impersonal , in challenging , compromising or embarrassing the ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 7 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 8 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 9 | ‘ Under my economic programme , we will build an America where even the most privileged pay their fair share , not because we want to soak the rich , but because we want to stop soaking the middle class and ask everybody to bear their fair share , ’ he said . |
| 10 | James says , in his letter , that we have not because we do not ask . |
| 11 | Stopping only to emphasize that this is not because we belong to different disciplines and that several other final positions are open to anyone from either discipline , we then leave readers to make up their own minds , or else to decide that there is no monopoly of wisdom to be had . |
| 12 | We use the word " mimicry " for these cases , not because we think that the animals consciously imitate other things , but because natural selection has favoured those individuals whose bodies were mistaken for other things . |
| 13 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 14 | Just like salvation , is not because we merit it . |
| 15 | But then they hesitate in doubt , not because they spot a new snag about believing but because they remember a previous experience . |
| 16 | Families above three children , and less than two , are more frequent in the manual social classes , especially class V. Manual workers have higher average fertility because they are more likely to have big families , not because they avoid having really small ones . |
| 17 | The inhibitors might therefore be causing amnesia not because they prevent protein synthesis but because of their effect on increasing amino acid levels . |
| 18 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 19 | Not because they try to sell us Maastricht as economic salvation , privatisation as good for the NHS and John Selwyn Gummer as a vibrant personality . |
| 20 | These junior institutions are the preparatory schools of the prisons , not because they train criminals , but because they train youngsters to cope with a regime which denies tenderness , warmth and the right to weep with and for your own pain . |
| 21 | The important point here is that Aristotle 's women are not autonomous , not because they lack abilities or capacities but because they lack authority ; that is , their right to make decisions , to speak for themselves is not acknowledged . |
| 22 | This is not because they lack interest , or are unrepresented in Britain : neither of these is true . |
| 23 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 24 | But the funny thing which strikes many young people is that they are being made scapegoats , then it is certainly not because they 've had it so good . |
| 25 | Mother says : People only lose because they 're not strong enough , not because they do n't want to fight or are n't good at fighting . |
| 26 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 27 | Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge . |
| 28 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |
| 29 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |
| 30 | Also , young children 's answers to examination questions may be off the mark , not because they do not know what they are being tested for , but because they misinterpret the examiner 's intention . |