Example sentences of "but because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for your sake , Colonel , but because we prefer to keep peace on the streets . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 3 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're not doing it because he 's poor , ’ said Peter , ‘ but because we like him . ’ |
| 5 | Sensations of white , for instance , are classed together , not because we can take them to pieces , and say they are alike in this , and not alike in that , but because we feel them to be alike altogether , though in different degrees . |
| 6 | there 's no problem there , erm , but because we do n't actually have a radio that gets us the World Service , the people did n't know what was going on , the only thing that we knew was that the air , because Riyadh is a military city |
| 7 | ‘ There is a facility to download information directly from the general ledger , but because we have a variety of different general ledgers and structures , it is left to the unit to sort it out . ’ |
| 8 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying . |
| 10 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 11 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |
| 12 | PPS If you already a member of The Ramblers ' Association , please forgive us , but because we want to preserve the confidentiality of each other 's membership lists , some element of duplication is inevitable . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 15 | Those of us who now recognise it as immoral do so , not because we are compassionate , but because we recognise the equal rights of humans and the duties that follow from recognising those rights . |
| 16 | Technical terms are not ends in themselves , but because they facilitate discussion , they do need to be explicitly taught . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most pay them on the same rates of pay , but because they lack seniority and are usually filling low-skilled , entry-level positions , seasonal workers ' actual earnings are usually lower than those of comparable regular workers . |
| 19 | Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that are required not for their calorific value , which is negligible , but because they help regulate the body 's metabolism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
| 22 | Stories are recorded not simply because they happened , but because they reveal something of God and his activity in the world . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I did build their amps virtually identically , but because they use their own types of guitar and their own different effects , the amps all sounded different . |
| 26 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid they do , but because they perceive television as entertainment , it goes right over their heads . |
| 28 | Most reports fail not through lack of facts but because they contain too many . |
| 29 | Labour 's economic policies are wrong , not chiefly because they are still preoccupied with redistributing wealth ( although they are ) , but because they reflect Labour 's conviction that public rather than private spending offers a route to national prosperity . |
| 30 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |