Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [v-ing] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 2 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that they are happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 3 | It pays not to overfeed adult ferrets at times when they are not working or they become fat and lazy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is that they are not talking because they see no way to settle their differences . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No , no , they 're not complaining because they 're getting an easy time , er , I mean , I 've got a couple like that as well . |
| 8 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 9 | No , but we 're not , we 're not arguing that they 're not working . |
| 10 | But they 're not fighting because they 've nobody no , national officials to fight for them . |
| 11 | Well could you , could you expand on that , cos you 're not saying that they , it 's actually passed from people 's D N A ? |
| 12 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying that they should n't make a mess or like that |
| 17 | There are those who , whether they realise or not , are n't joking when they say these things . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They are n't trading because they do n't receive income . |
| 20 | ‘ You ought to be listening to the grass roots and saying : ‘ Look , we 've started doing the tests , we 've found they are n't working as they should . |
| 21 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 22 | If they were n't carrying when they walked in there , they will be now . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |