Example sentences of "but [conj] they 're not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the statement made today was that they 're not falling behind but that they 're not progressing . |
| 2 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 3 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 4 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 5 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 6 | But if they 're not celebrating the Labour Party will do it for them . |
| 7 | But if they 're not feeling quite well what can you expect ? |
| 8 | But if they 're not gon na break up , I mean , there are some pretty disillusioned players there . |
| 9 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 10 | but because they 're not linguists |
| 11 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes his ideas are good , but when they 're not , he 's unable to recognise the fact . |