Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It pays not to overfeed adult ferrets at times when they are not working or they become fat and lazy . |
| 2 | We are not talking about the merits and de-merits of fox hunting we are not talking whether they die slowly or fast or what should be done . |
| 3 | It is that they are not talking because they see no way to settle their differences . |
| 4 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 5 | But they 're not fighting because they 've nobody no , national officials to fight for them . |
| 6 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 7 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 8 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 9 | There are those who , whether they realise or not , are n't joking when they say these things . |
| 10 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 11 | They are n't trading because they do n't receive income . |
| 12 | And those people that take or get extra , either their body is not producing or they want an extra bit for something so they can run a hundred yards at er in an extra five minutes . |