Example sentences of "be [subord] they do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we know what people 's interests are if they do not act on them because they are induced or coerced not to ? |
| 2 | They do n't have the time or the resources , and that may be because they do n't have enough people at partner level to cope with the organisation that training involves . ’ |
| 3 | If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more . |
| 4 | No , it wo n't be because they do n't do the , they do n't do an open afternoon if it 's a championship |
| 5 | and it 's cos they do n't understand them but you 're understanding them I think very well now so you 're going to like them . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's cos they do n't know the basics . |
| 7 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 8 | It 's cos they do n't sit in the seat properly , they slouch in them ! |
| 9 | The only reason most people do n't use it is cos they do n't like to get on a keyboard of a computer . |
| 10 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |
| 11 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 13 | Maybe it is because they do n't want to fulfil their financial commitments . |
| 14 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |
| 15 | I think this is because they do n't practice being feminine with the boys around and so they get on with the work more . |
| 16 | But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to . |
| 17 | The reason that a lot of the older players are going is because they did n't produce the goods when the club needed it most at least the kids were going out battling . |
| 18 | On the whole , DOS spreadsheets perform faster and need less in the way of resources to work properly — but that 's because they do n't do very much with those resources until you start to use the graphics facilities they offer . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's because they do n't let them kill people any more , ’ said Constance . |
| 20 | Film stars make terrible mothers , but that 's because they do n't know how to behave . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not because they ca n't have sex , it 's because they do n't want to . |
| 22 | I mean I du n no whether it 's because they do n't want to lose votes or you know I mean they they were there sort of pontificating about we should all come little children and let's talk . |
| 23 | Lumb says it 's because they do n't have a branch there , but we think it 's solid Labour to look at all the blue posters . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's because they did n't live long enough , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about . |
| 26 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 27 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 28 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 29 | And I think the reason for that was because they did n't have a say in what was happening . |
| 30 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |