Example sentences of "they be not [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Inertia has kept the sites occupied , but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings .
2 There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners .
3 Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway .
4 They are not speaking to each other , following a disagreement on the eighth night over whether or not Chris was going to have a third bottle of wine with dinner .
5 They were obviously delighted to be able to use Phoebe to prove their conviction that child stars burn out if they are not raised to be as dull as anyone else 's children .
6 Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors .
7 Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors .
8 They are not emigrating to Canada or Australia . ’
9 In rural areas the house drains , where they are not connected to sewers , are directed into enclosed tanks called cess pools or into septic tanks .
10 There may be a limited exemption for non-profit-making bodies and foundations , provided that the data is used only ‘ as part of their legitimate aims ’ and ‘ on condition that they relate only those members and corresponding members who have consented to being included therein and that they are not communicated to third parties ’ .
11 An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name .
12 The Department of National Savings ( form SB4 obtainable at Post Offices ) and building societies will pay out amounts up to £5,000 on the evidence of the death certificate , although they are not bound to until the grant of probate or letters of administration have been issued .
13 ‘ All the time your bosses and peers are listening to consultants , they are not listening to you .
14 The person who makes the arrangements with the funeral director may be considered to have entered into a binding contract , and become responsible for the cost , even if they are not related to the deceased .
15 Maybe partners will come to feel that schools will respond better to the aims of education set out in the 1988 Education Act if they are not tied to curricula based on the traditional subjects alone .
16 By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals .
17 Producer services are tradeable ; unlike many services they are not tied to local population and income levels , and as a consequence they contribute to spatial variations in service employment .
18 They are not intended to be narrowly restrictive , ‘ only-possible ’ solutions : instead , you should find that they suggest what kinds of factors you ought to be identifying in your analysis , and the range of possible solutions we think are sensible .
19 They are not intended to be prescriptive but are illustrative of the flexibility of National Certificate Modules in planning a curriculum .
20 The programs given in this manual are for demonstration and learning purposes ; they are not intended to be taken and used as working programs without modification to suit your needs .
21 There wo n't be any after tomorrow , but if there is they are not to respond to it .
22 And unlike software , they are not limited to one particular type of computer or disc format .
23 When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives .
24 They are not limited to ictal episodes and can also occur peri-ictally and interictally .
25 They will suffer still more communication deprivation if ‘ uneconomical ’ public telephones are withdrawn from villages ; yet , sadly , in the early 1980s many rural public telephone boxes are being removed by British Telecommunications , in spite of campaigns to retain them , because they are not felt to be economically viable .
26 They will be wholly ineffective for this purpose if the patient is incapable of understanding them , they are not explained to him and there is no good evidence ( apart from the patient 's signature ) that he had that understanding and fully appreciated the significance of signing it .
27 They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination .
28 ABOVE Ventilation is vital for dogs travelling in cars , but do make sure that they are not exposed to a powerful draught which could affect their eyes .
29 Last week the UK Department of Health confirmed its earlier recommendations that the risk of cot death is reduced if infants are laid to sleep on their backs , if they are not exposed to cigarette smoke before or after birth , and if they are not overwrapped or overheated , especially when feverish or unwell .
30 ‘ If they have , Khan , they are not known to me . ’
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