Example sentences of "not [adj] because they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances . |
| 2 | The participants are not upset because they accept the democratic procedure . |
| 3 | Such entities as STOCK , SALES-ORDER and CUSTOMER are appropriate because they are quantifiable , whereas ‘ stock control ’ , ‘ order processing ’ and ‘ credit control ’ are not appropriate because they are functions : what the organisation does , and not things of interest which participate in functions . |
| 4 | The women ca n't do that , those who are married because they are married and those who are not married because they are not married . |
| 5 | The demands on the operator stem from two kinds of task which are not compatible because they require very different levels of skill . |
| 6 | Then I jogged past them and I thought , that 's not fair because they were only being like everyone else . |
| 7 | I mean they was , they are not new because they was when I was a kid people were . |
| 8 | ‘ Evidence seems to suggest that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents , which is not surprising because they are very inexperienced , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Badgers smell musky , which is not surprising because they habitually deposit tiny amounts of musk , a smelly fluid secreted from a gland near the anus , to mark the home territory and individuals within that territory . |
| 10 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |