Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra . |
| 2 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 3 | But on the Carvin this is not so because they have set the on/off facility at such a point that only the ‘ send ’ side is affected , leaving your last reverb treated signal to die away naturally . |
| 4 | Quality circles have been seen as a major achievement of the Japanese system , and not only because they serve as a substitute for quality surveillance as a separate management function . |
| 5 | Even if these steps are narrow , and only wide enough for one or two people , they need a handrail ; not only because they get slippery when wet , but also because the earth gets pressed below the level of the wooden supporting boards , which could trip the unwary . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason why so many of Britain 's 16 year olds continue to grasp regular jobs , when they are available , are not only because they prefer immediate earning to studying or training , though the pay is usually a distinct attraction . |
| 7 | Krashen 's ( 1981 ) views are particularly relevant to the study of BSL , not only because they lay the base for a fundamental re-examination of teaching methods ( see appendix 2 ) but because they allow us to understand more clearly the language learning problems of BSL acquirers . |
| 8 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 9 | If experimental novelists metaphorically stare across the Channel , it is not only because they hope some valuable contraband — fresh styles from France — may be smuggled through English literary customs . |
| 10 | State provision is important for many elderly people , not only because they have to rely on a retirement or supplementary pension in the absence of income from employment or from an occupational pension , but also because they need the health and social services provided by the welfare state . |
| 11 | Needless to say a considerable number of indignant gallery owners have protested , not only because they have been demoted , but because the list which contains the details about which gallery is in which category has been widely circulated . |
| 12 | This is not only because they face a " bull market " for their skills , but also because they are a small and homogeneous population . |
| 13 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 14 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 15 | But is hardly less distressing to Israeli ‘ moderates ’ , not merely because they find oppression of another people morally wrong , but because of its dangerously divisive effect on Israeli society itself . |
| 16 | C-fos and c-jun are of interest , though , not merely because they provide a key mechanistic link between early events at the cell membrane and nuclear protein synthesis , but because they only become active in cells showing plastic changes , and they can be measured and localized with exquisite sensitivity by variants of the autoradiographic techniques I have already described . |
| 17 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 18 | The practices associated with harassment are so jealously guarded , not just because they articulate a culture of institutionalized racism within the force , but because they form part of a system ‘ workers ’ control' against the encroachment of line management . |
| 19 | I believe in low taxes not just because they ignite enterprise — the spark of economic growth — but because they put power and choice where it belongs : in your hands . |
| 20 | The figures on schooling and educational background are particularly revealing , not just because they disclose that roughly 90 per cent of the country 's judges received a public school education , or that over three quarters had attended either Oxford or Cambridge universities , but because they also confirm that this social profile has remained virtually unaltered over the last four decades or more . |
| 21 | ‘ We had a very good season , ’ Walsh reflects , ‘ not just because we 've won something , but because you learn in the process , and it 's very enjoyable . |
| 22 | It 's not just because we 've had police officers injured . |
| 23 | It 's not just because we 've had police officers injured — we 've had extra officers in their all the time , but we 're going to step that up now . |
| 24 | I hope you will be with the health service workers , not just because I have the honour and privilege of being a national officer with this greatest union in the country . |
| 25 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
| 26 | 2 I think she 's glad to see me , not just because I give her treat food , but because she 's lonely . |
| 27 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 28 | but sometimes actually it 's a more , you know , kind of it 's , it 's , it 's not really because they 've got problems but it 's just because they , they 're , they 're , they 're sort of more diligent and more , you know , more motivated but erm yeah getting on |
| 29 | Not simply because they happen to run one of the best tavernas in the region , but because they 've always issued a standing invitation for me to bring anyone I care to . ’ |
| 30 | What I tomorrow and not here because they forward it on to us . |