This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

A British lawmaker told parliament in eighteen seventy that Englishmen were leaving their country, not because they wanted to, but because they had to.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

But it was not because the city grew a lot of beans.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

"Not because Indonesia is going to invade, (NO TRANSCRIPS) but because last year, for example,40 percent of what this country imported came from Indonesia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Remember, everything we did was a first, not because we were pioneers or inventors, but it is literally, necessity is the mother of invention.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

"I don't actually expect that there will be a Palestinian state, not because of Israel's recalcitrance but because Palestinians don't seem to really want it,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

"North Korea fed its version of the story to the people, saying the reason Kim looks this way is not because he's lost his health, but because he works day and night for the people, visiting work sites and so on,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

They are not accepted in Thai schools because they are not citizens of the country and do not speak Thai.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

One senator said the administration should not have been called the Pierce administration, because Pierce did not lead it.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Some members of the glee club are not popular because they are different from the rest of the students.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

First,they said, he could not be guilty of treason against Virginia, because he was not a citizen of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.02