Example sentences of "[noun] but they [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Flank Companies of the 1st Guards ( Grenadiers ) certainly later reinforced the Coldstream and 3rd Guards but they were not part of the original garrison . |
| 2 | And I get them er , I thought they were on the seat but they 're not . |
| 3 | And West Germany of course , has had ten years of massive growth in nuclear power , I do n't hear the Green movement pressing us to imitate that ; they want the end result but they 're not prepared to wield the means . |
| 4 | The majority of victims were Jews but they were not alone — as many as 4,000 gypsies may have been killed there in one session . |
| 5 | Friday but they 're not making a promise , but they said that last week |
| 6 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 7 | The guys are hard , our guys have skill but they 're not as physically fit |
| 8 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 9 | In fact businessmen wanted State assistance but they were not prepared to offer any real quid pro quo in the shape of control over their activities . |
| 10 | The Macrory review considered the existing proposals for reshaping local government in Northern Ireland but they were not limited to these in making their recommendations . |
| 11 | ‘ More bobbies on the beat gives rise to greater confidence but they are not necessarily an effective use of police time , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Moaners get attention but they 're not much fun to have around ! |
| 13 | Questions 1 to 4 cover considerations necessary for any type of intervention but they are not arranged in a logical , systematic order . |
| 14 | The two erm handlers here , I do n't know whether there 's one who 's handling and the other one 's just sort of having a chat with him about but , you know , they they 're important in the picture but they 're not er you know , the horses completely dominate the , the two people in the picture . |
| 15 | They did , they did it in the evening but they 're not in the , did n't do it the morning . |
| 16 | Speedy can of course you know he 's a good little leaper for a small lad but they 're not just gon na be able to whack the ball up there . |
| 17 | Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number . |
| 18 | Hamilton had great hopes for quaternions but they were not quite what the physicists wanted . |
| 19 | You lose the parcel but it 's end up for example in the , they used a contractor at the other end because we lost the parcel but they 're not responsible for that . |
| 20 | Vulgarisms may make good graffiti but they are not appropriate in an academic essay . |
| 21 | We could devise alternative definitions of these phenomena but they are not likely to be any more helpful than those we have . |
| 22 | Liz McColgan covered the course in 1 hour 10 minutes — the wheelchair lot took 2 hours 25 minutes but they were not last ! |
| 23 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 24 | Writers in this tradition do touch on some spatial dimensions but they are not central . |
| 25 | Mind you Don Johnson and Melanie Griffi Griffith are alright , are man and wife but they 're not in every film together are they ? |
| 26 | Some of the dates were release dates but they were not all genuine because one of the prisoners had been able to interfere with the computer and ‘ reduce ’ the sentences . |
| 27 | But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit . |
| 28 | I think young people might look like hippies but they 're not apathetic . ’ |
| 29 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 30 | They are not quite community workers and centres but they are not far off . |