Example sentences of "they be not [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 2 | I 'm I 'm not er well if they 're going to er if they 're going to lose their leaves like they are doing now people are slipping on them are n't they . |
| 3 | you to look at it today , good job I 've knitted some erm good job I 've knit some jumpers for them , they 're gon na need them are n't they ? |
| 4 | yes but teachers are like them are n't they ? |
| 5 | Cats are very bad for them are n't they ? |
| 6 | Oh they 're nice looking cars them are n't they ? |
| 7 | yeah , they 'll miserable them are n't they ? |
| 8 | These little kids on them are n't they ? |
| 9 | Most of them are n't they ? |
| 10 | They 're ever so heavy them are n't they ? |
| 11 | Erm yeah , well I suppose I mean , they are quite familiar with the Spanish City a lot of them are n't they ? |
| 12 | What y you 're selling something different to them are n't you ? |
| 13 | You 're gon na show me these things before you get Kath to print them are n't you ? |
| 14 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 15 | erm I think the general pressure on tropical governments now from the environmental lobby has got to the point where they are n't they 're beginning to realise the problems . |
| 16 | They are n't her jewels after all . |
| 17 | They are n't mine , Adam wanted to say but desisted . |
| 18 | He writes his ‘ Mémoires ’ , but they are n't his memoirs . |
| 19 | If they are n't you can send them straight back . ’ |
| 20 | Graphemes can be combined into strings to produce graphological representations of utterances ( ie writing ) but they are not themselves divisible into smaller units ; they are more abstract than graphs ( units in a graphic representation ) . |
| 21 | All the changes are autonomous in the sense that they are not themselves caused by changes in income or interest rates . |
| 22 | If they are not they should be bought . |
| 23 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
| 24 | Otherwise , you may find that they are not what you had anticipated and you may need to adapt your performance . |
| 25 | Needless to say they are not what they seem . |
| 26 | While these matters may seem perfectly normal to those who do their shopping in Albania or Louisville , Colorado , they are not what we are used to . |
| 27 | Whereas the speaker knows that any words which pass his lips will be heard by his interlocutor and , if they are not what he intends , he will have to undertake active , public ‘ repair ’ , the writer can cross out and rewrite in the privacy of his study . |
| 28 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 29 | Once again , the setting is theatrical , and the perspectives are varied — Act I presents the audience at a play ; Act II shows the characters in the play , and yet even they are not what they at first seem , as Frayn offers both the lines they are delivering and the thoughts they are actually thinking . |
| 30 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |