Example sentences of "because we [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next Labour Government will end GP fund holding , because we shall not tolerate a two-tier list system in which the length of time a patient waits depends on the size of the GP 's budget . |
| 2 | Asked why , knowing that such practices were illegal yet widespread , he had not made a stand against them , Sir Henry replied : ‘ Because we should not have got the players . ’ |
| 3 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 4 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 5 | The second violin , whom we nicknamed ‘ Dolly ’ because we could not pronounce his Portuguese name , was deeply depressed , and sometimes could not play . |
| 6 | He would be wasted because we could not get enough ball to him . |
| 7 | ‘ Contrary to rumours circulating in the area , the Cambrian News is not in financial difficulties , and we are simply placing the contract for printing the paper elsewhere because we can not justify an investment of around 2m ( pounds ) for new machinery to go tabloid and bring in colour , ’ said Mr Read , whose great grandfather established the company in Aberystwyth in 1890 . |
| 8 | There are few examples of the last two phases , primarily because we can not specify unambiguously the user problem to be solved — beyond very simple situations . |
| 9 | So , in order to avoid what we believe is hurting others , we end up hurting ourselves , with the final result that because we can not do what we want , we grow bitter and resentful . |
| 10 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 11 | Thus , at night , urine flow would be low because we can not drink when we are asleep , and in the daytime our kidneys would respond to an increased fluid intake . |
| 12 | This is because we can not observe how many baby universes exist out there , waiting to join onto our region of the universe . |
| 13 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 14 | But as a use of language , as an utterance , presented like this in isolation , it is quite incomprehensible , because we can not attach any meaning to it . |
| 15 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 16 | It is not worth our while because we can not redeem them for as much as they would get for five- or 10-dollar bills . ’ |
| 17 | At a very humble level , the bee can see in the ultraviolet , which is invisible to us : we would be tempted to say that the ultraviolet was not light , because we can not see it , but as far as the bee is concerned it most certainly is ! |
| 18 | It is necessary because we can not see the mental and the behavioural as related in a non-contingent way . |
| 19 | There is no escape and the tragedy is that the exchange rate mechanism — which the present aggressive , decisive Prime Minister bullied the hapless , shrinking right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) into entering all those months ago , forcing it on her against her will in such a decisive fashion — precludes recovery , because we can not reduce interest rates . |
| 20 | But because we can not escape history it also seems either naive or even wicked . |
| 21 | Many species are having to be brought into captivity merely as an emergency measure because we can not act fast enough , or effectively enough , in the wild and we do not know enough about most plants and animals to conserve them . |
| 22 | Because we can not question their authors , autobiographies can be tantalizingly elusive : but in compensation , what they omit or include is in itself evidence of the attitudes of the writers and of the readers they had in mind . |
| 23 | The intended contrast is between repudiating science because we can not understand how to bring it into harmony with an antecedently given substantive conception of reality , and rejecting our most general scientific theories because they are constantly surprised by experience . |
| 24 | We get angry because we can not understand , because people do n't get better or have changed . |
| 25 | People on television often behave as though they are interacting with us ; they look at the camera and address themselves to us , and though this seems to be a fiction , because we can not interrupt or contradict , still we can switch off or over , and TV programmes are influenced by viewers ' letters and ratings . |
| 26 | But once we use Christian values to complete it , it renders the system logically inconsistent ; because we can not introduce Christian values on a piecemeal basis . |
| 27 | We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one . |
| 28 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 29 | Contractors will reluctantly say , ’ No , we simply can not do your work because we can not afford to be out of the money for that period . ’ |
| 30 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |