Example sentences of "they [be] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 2 | They , the vast majority of them are not Shire Hall based er , administrative staff or what I think is generally er , the view , er , the general view of , of management and support . |
| 3 | The figure was mentioned to me by the manager of a gay bar who was justifying the role of the establishment , but added , ‘ some of them are not angels you know . |
| 4 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 5 | Do you want a fire retardant one or just in interestingly enough , the ones that have got price offers on them are n't fire retardant . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , as I said to you just now , ’ said the lady , ‘ there are still Brownies who do good turns , although they are n't fairy folk but real girls like this one — and about her age too . ’ |
| 7 | They are n't chapters though , are they . |
| 8 | I think for er even for upgrades we er the contracts do it sometimes which to me 's wrong cos they are n't engineers |
| 9 | If they are n't part of your main holding company in London , maybe you could use them to set up some sort of diversion ? ’ she queried . |
| 10 | ‘ They are n't friends , oh no ! |
| 11 | Is that because you know they are n't murderers , Didier ? |
| 12 | They are n't VL Bus compliant , so they 're proprietary and prone to be early orphans . |
| 13 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |
| 14 | They are n't copies , they 're the origin-als . |
| 15 | They are n't puppets . |
| 16 | You know , are we going to get requests again when they are n't Ottery children ? |
| 17 | They are n't team players . ’ |
| 18 | Well they are n't dynamo er a dynam a dynamo 's obsolete . |
| 19 | They are n't books but they are n't half bad for the bottom line . |
| 20 | ‘ They are n't clergy . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know what we 're seeing , but they are n't dragons . ’ |
| 22 | But they are n't Cropper 's or Blackadder 's or Lord Ash 's , either . |
| 23 | ‘ Alice , they are n't snobs , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 25 | The diff lock may affect the warranty on a new vehicle as at the moment they are not Land Rover approved fitments . |
| 26 | Furthermore , since they are not directives but guidelines they must be flexible enough to allow for teacher participation and the exercise of initiative so that teachers can follow their course in reference to the bearings provided . |
| 27 | That is not an assumption made by Amis or Golding or Murdoch , and that is the plain sense in which they are not Modernists . |
| 28 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 29 | It was , I think , common cause among all of us who were involved in the talks last year , and who , I hope , will be involved in the talks in the future , that they are not peace talks per se ; they are talks about a political settlement , not only in terms of Northern Ireland but in terms of the relations between Northern Ireland and the republic and between Great Britain and the republic . |
| 30 | Despite their importance they are not household names as they do not deal with the general public . |