Not because I could not drink like a real Russian--but in everything!
To his sister he could not speak out freely, not because he considered her too stupid to understand him--oh, no!
I am not telling the truth exactly when I say that I wasn't upset--I was horribly upset, not because I was brought home drunk, but because I was convinced of my utter inefficiency.
He was taken in by us in this pitiful condition, and we put him into the printing-office and gave him enormous wages, not because he could earn it, but merely out of pity.
If I have found it best to conceal where my home is, it is not because I am ashamed of him.
Yet it was remarkable to him; not because of the fact itself, but because of the reminder it brought with it, how much the dear little creature had influenced his better resolutions.
He despised it, not because it was essentially commonplace, but because it had a superficial air of originality.
Johnson was impolite, not because he wanted benevolence, but because small things appeared smaller to him than to people who had never known what it was to live for fourpence halfpenny a day.
But we disapprove of them, not because we think them bad, but because we think that there was no chance of their being executed.
He shuns danger, not because he is insensible to shame, but because, in the society in which he lives, timidity has ceased to be shameful.
He doesn't jeer at things, not because he hasn't the wit, but as though he hadn't time to waste on such trifles.
I remark this, because I remark everything that happens, not because I care about myself, or have done since I came home.
The Duke would go on collecting it and buying more property, which always means more trouble,--not because he is avaricious, but because for the time that comes easier than spending.
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Every word that he said about Fletcher cut her to the heart;--not because it grieved her that Fletcher should be abused, but that her husband should condescend to abuse him.
Parliament can do such a thing, not because it has any creative power of its own, but because it has the command of unlimited capital.
And Adam has been despised ever since,--not because he ate the apple, but because he imputed the eating of it to a woman.
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word?
It is not because we are partial towards the Entente or against Germany or Austria.
A very heated and bitter discussion followed in the upper House, not because of any real disagreement regarding the matter at issue, but because a large section of Senators were extremely anxious regarding the internal consequences.
We are constrained to submit this statement of policy for the consideration of our authorities, not because we are fond of argument but because we are deeply anxious for our national welfare.
He was aware that of late he had been amusing himself with her passion in a way that was not less than cruel, not because he wished to do so, but because he was listless and wished nothing.
I'm staying behind because I'm left, not because I expect to do anything.
Ask women: one giveth birth, not because it giveth pleasure.
Is it not because he hath had to be ashamed too oft?
It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.
Since then there had been no trafficking with the traitor--the double traitor, whom he was now plotting to destroy, not because he was a traitor to his country, but because he was a traitor to the Baas.
It had been insufficient, not because of the value of the article for sale, but because of the rapacity of the vender.
It is not because I would deny them a share of any pleasure I enjoy, but because they are so many and I am so few that I think they would get all the pleasure and I none.
I believe with Senor Valdes that "no literature can live long without joy," not because of its mistaken aesthetics, however, but because no civilization can live long without joy.
It's not because I have dragged you through all this dirt and horror.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not because" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
