Example sentences of "when [pron] be [adv] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 2 | ‘ So many people come to our clinic complaining that they have greasy hair , when they are simply not washing it frequently enough , ’ says trichologist Glenn Lyons . |
| 3 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 4 | The next thing he knew , the Thames Valley Police were calling the landlords as prosecution witnesses in " Operation Major " — dubbed " The Sting " by a tabloid newspaper — after the police had arrested hundreds of their tenants ( all claimants ) for allegedly defrauding the DHSS , by supposedly drawing social security to pay their rent when they were actually not paying any . |
| 5 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |