Sentence examples for been not because from inspiring English sources

Blackburn plays things because they were either hits or ought to have been, not because they win brownie points with industry or press.

Still, developers under his administration must be the happiest - that is, richest - they've ever been, not because he's doing favours in exchange for getting campaign funds from them (he clearly isn't), but because of New York's rampant gentrification and ever-growing need for housing.

The year 2013 was when everyone offered Kevin Shields his first-born child, then spent 11 months uncontrollably urinating and defecating all over the house because the new My Bloody Valentine album wasn't the horrifying catastrophe it could have been, not because it was any great shakes.

"That's not because they're lucky.

It is not because it is poor.

This is not because grocers are puritanical.

It's not because he's evil.

"It's not because they're superhuman.

This is not because they are cheaper.

This is not because of low demand.

It's not because I have to.