Example sentences of "[coord] precisely because " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . |
| 2 | ‘ Sarrasine represents the very confusion [ le trouble même ] of representation ’ ( p. 216 ) , and precisely because of this , representation is replaced by reflexivity . |
| 3 | But precisely because purity is invested with such a tremendous erotic charge , fears of ‘ impurity ’ remained insistent and corrosive , and in a perversely dynamic proximity disavowed along lines suggested by Freud 's remarks at the beginning of this section , and in a passage from ‘ Repression ’ ( 191 5 ) worth citing again in this context : |
| 4 | The departure of Lord Leverhulme was not a victory for crofting but a defeat The crofters left the land not because Lord Leverhulme gave them jobs in a factory , but precisely because he did not . |
| 5 | Banks , Harris and Sinclair were probably elected because of their trade-union connections , but precisely because of these existing responsibilities , the first two could not devote much time and effort to what appeared to be a marginal group making little impact . |
| 6 | It can not happen not because the forms of negation are mindless , but precisely because they are too mindful of meaning and significance , constantly reminded of rationality and purposive thought : |
| 7 | But precisely because of that , sex and sexual representations are important to us , and so we can not allow a simple-minded anti-pornography consensus to stifle us . |
| 8 | I voted Tory not because I want to earn lots of money ( I am on the dole ) , but precisely because I object to the facile cynicism as witnessed above . |
| 9 | I have in my own way tried to point out that , of the world 's leading rugby nations , the game in south Africa has suffered badly not only as a result of its years of isolation — as many of those who have just visited the country during the New Zealand and Australian tours believe — but precisely because our officials have for a very long time been at the forefront of the trend towards professionalism . |
| 10 | Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document . |
| 11 | But precisely because the effect is dispersed through the whole market the Keynesian argues that , unless there is a massive increase in the money supply , the impact on interest rates in general may be relatively small . |
| 12 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 13 | He was , perhaps , more powerfully so , and not merely as a matter of proximate generation but precisely because such strenuous efforts had been made to exclude him . |