Example sentences of "but [adv] they [am/are] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it . |
| 2 | For example , they believe corporate encourages open discussions , but basically they are not influenceable . |
| 3 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 4 | No but not they 're not , that 's just |
| 5 | And the reason is normally we look at human relationships from one point of view or another , or assume that perspectives are the same , but clearly they 're not the same , the perspective of an offspring is not the same as the perspective of , of the parent . |
| 6 | But now they 're not just so all the people can have one because Mr and Mrs are leaving . |
| 7 | But now they 're not using plums any more , they 're using marrow . |
| 8 | That is one of the options being considered , but presently they are not at the point where they can delegate projects . |
| 9 | These conditioned psychological needs are usually an extension of a horse 's normal essential requirements ; and sometimes they are advantageous to us in our relationship with horses , but sometimes they are not . |
| 10 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 11 | They may take themselves rather too seriously and are full of ‘ in ’ jokes and references , but then they are not intended for general consumption . |
| 12 | disgusting but then they 're not the sort of people you can talk to are they ? |
| 13 | They are excellent for both hunting and demonstration flying , but unfortunately they are not common in Britain , being native to the USA and South America . |
| 14 | Scrawls I might enjoy , on their own , but unfortunately they are not just mere scuttles — oh , no , it seems I 'm in some kind of a scuttle-free universe — these scuttles spell something . |
| 15 | " Shakespeare " and " the author of Macbeth " refer to the same person , but evidently they are not always interchangeable . |