Example sentences of "they [be] [not/n't] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , they are n't all questions you can ask directly , or if you do , you wo n't get an honest answer . |
| 2 | They are n't all pygmies in New Guinea |
| 3 | Essentially you 'll that erm the the analysts are erm hand on , uhm , ‘ both managers a such should be encouraged to consult the various directors and put some forethought into the sort of accessibilities , sorry accountabilities , that characterize a certain sort of job ’ so although they are not all directors , Neil is is is will be our editorial expert in this . |
| 4 | I mean we do support , do n't we , things like the talking newspaper across the area , because there 's , and we do support like erm , Mrs 's holiday for youngsters , although they are not all Ottery kids , but I mean the fact of the matter is , I think we would need each time we look at any of this , that there are Ottery youngsters involved . |
| 5 | If there could be more attempts like this to show mentally handicapped lives in their normality , rather than in a sensational way , the media could play a major role in helping the public to understand more about the lives that handicapped people lead ; that they are not all anguish and broken dreams , but often constructive , fulfilling and as life enhancing as anyone else 's . |
| 6 | That they are not such statements is in accord with the fact , rightly insisted upon by Hume , as already noted , that causes can not be said to be in a certain logical connection with their effects : the fact that it is not contradictory , however mistaken it may be , to assert that a causal circumstance for an event existed but that the event did not occur . |
| 7 | And they 're not , I mean they 're pretty but they 're not that magnolia range in Marks is lovely . |
| 8 | They 're not that sort of neighbours . |
| 9 | Ah they 're not all granny 's . |
| 10 | They 're not all students , presumably . |
| 11 | They 're not all teletext ? |
| 12 | I mean that they 're a valuable source of fund raising in the schools for example , erm and I would not , they are also a valuable source of fund raising people that need to raise money to buy their kids Christmas presents and so on , you know , I mean people , they 're not all market traders or people shifting stolen goods at car boot sales . |
| 13 | I I I think really they er they forget that that there 's a quite a large number of the population , they do think about what 's going on , and they 're not all children and they 're not and are n't all that easy easily persuaded . |
| 14 | He might be more constructive if he cared to pick which items from that he agrees with , we might even find a measure of agreement on one or two of the issues , because they 're not all rubbish . |
| 15 | " At least you did n't call me a tinker , and they 're not all thieves . " |
| 16 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 17 | They 're not much cop when they can open their legs like that . |
| 18 | half elastic and it 's like pleats at the back and er blue , nearly blue pleating and these two blouses , er I try , if they 're not any good I 'll send the buggers back |
| 19 | And they were not all billionaires : it was possible to take a ten day cruise to North Africa for £9 . |
| 20 | Wondering why on earth they were not all friends . |
| 21 | They were not all Russians , since they included Caucasians , Kalmucks and Ukrainians ( many of whom had Polish nationality ) . |
| 22 | They were not equipped to deal with a progressive condition , they were not that kind of establishment . |
| 23 | They were n't such people as would , or could , send reports to the administration high above , not even of anything monstrously peculiar . |
| 24 | And my God , they were n't such facilities as er what's-a-name , if it was er wet weather . |
| 25 | They were n't such thing as , as er fertilizer what there is today , liquid fertiliser none like that there was all human fertiliser . |
| 26 | The older women were kindly souls , as maternal as their husbands were ruthless murderers , but honestly they were n't much fun for Mrs Goreng . |
| 27 | ‘ I rang the college , but they were n't much help . |
| 28 | They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them . |
| 29 | They were n't any use to Moscow dead . |
| 30 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |