Example sentences of "they be [adv] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are really good fun to be around , they are just not overindulgent or obsessive , ’ he says . |
| 2 | ‘ Teaching at home is a bloody waste of time — the students are so alienated that they are just not interested . ’ |
| 3 | They are also not enthusiastic about bankrolling the economic ‘ convergence ’ of the poorer EC countries . |
| 4 | They are also not afraid to ‘ take charge ’ . |
| 5 | In any event , there are undoubtedly inherent difficulties in applying a child-centred approach to discipline in an institutional setting , although they are probably not insurmountable . |
| 6 | Although viruses , plasmids , and transposons are relatively simple , they are probably not primitive , because they can replicate only inside living cells , using some of the machinery of those cells . |
| 7 | But they are surely not financial : at the end of 1992 , net debt was less than $785m . |
| 8 | Although the Japanese could object under EEC law that this is artificial price fixing , they are secretly not unhappy . |
| 9 | It is quite hopeless to expect any news which they are either not ready nor sufficiently interested to share . |
| 10 | Caught unprepared , Sotheby 's admit that , while they have the Sharp collection , they are still not sure when it will be sold ( most probably in January 1994 ) and more importantly , what exactly will be sold . |
| 11 | Here they are still not uncommon figures in the poorer parts of the larger cities . |
| 12 | They are still not 100 % safe . |
| 13 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 14 | For some standards ( e.g. on earnings per share and deferred tax ) , this fact makes it easy to comment on their applicability : they are obviously not applicable . |
| 15 | They are really not similar enough , either to each other or to Knossos , for us to assume that they were copied from the Knossos Labyrinth as a model . |
| 16 | They are certainly not small targets to be found with a metal detector and I was amazed that they were there , for they proved that no detector user had worked the area since my last visit . |
| 17 | They are not really enjoying what they are eating ; they are not even noticing what they are eating ; they are certainly not satisfying feelings of hunger . |
| 18 | They are by no means all bad , but they are certainly not all good . |
| 19 | If anything , the papers are growing yet more adventurous , and they are certainly not expensive , at between three and five kopecks ( pence ) a copy . |
| 20 | They are certainly not human . |
| 21 | And they are certainly not blind to their difficulties or weaknesses . |
| 22 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 23 | While there are local adaptations of agricultural and pastoral practice to conserve soil , these processes ensure that they are usually not far-reaching , nor fast enough . |
| 24 | They are wholesale not retail deposits , and yet they were still included in M1 . |
| 25 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the problem that some mature students , particularly women with home commitments , have to take their degree courses in the form of part-time courses and that they are therefore not eligible for mandatory grant ? |
| 26 | They 're clearly not used to a lot of tourism . |
| 27 | And then they 're just not available to play at home th those |
| 28 | well they 're just not honest are they ? |
| 29 | For that reason we have to welcome er the er th th the orders , but they 're just not good enough . |
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