Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] but they [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what actually happens , these are taken off-site and they 're washed but they 're not sorted . |
| 2 | And they 're not , I mean they 're pretty but they 're not that magnolia range in Marks is lovely . |
| 3 | I know they 're numbered but they 're not in the right order . |
| 4 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 5 | Nicotine and caffeine are mood-altering but they are not obviously fully cross-addictive with alcohol and the various drugs that lead to Chemical Dependency . |
| 6 | Erm , and er , they are necessary but they are not actually what we agreed . |
| 7 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |