Example sentences of "be n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zeppelin are making no bones about the fact that Doc Croc 's Outrageous Adventures was previously released as Round The Bend , and are n't trying to pull the wool over anyone 's eyes . |
| 2 | When you are eating a fibre-rich diet there are restraining limits on how many calories you can actually manage to consume in a day — even if you are n't trying to shed weight . |
| 3 | As one of the few major acoustic companies who are n't trying to emulate anyone else , Lowden 's guitars have great strength of character and thus tend to polarise guitarists into two camps : those who utterly adore them , and those who are left dry-eyed and unmoved . |
| 4 | And , anyway , we are n't trying . " |
| 5 | ‘ You are n't trying to tell me you 're sorry it got away , are you ? ’ |
| 6 | Other landlords are n't trying to tell their tenants what to do . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 8 | Wet brakes offer long service life through oil immersion and are n't affected by external water . |
| 9 | They said : It 's been halved , beer sales are n't affected but food 's gone right down . |
| 10 | Postal services are n't affected by the dispute . |
| 11 | ‘ You are n't asked to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ People are n't asked to make other arrangements on this paper , are they ? |
| 13 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 14 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
| 15 | Then there is Alistair Maclean 's The Satan Bug ( 1962 ) , based upon the Morden Microbiological Research Establishment in Wiltshire , which contrives to make a tiresome tale out of ‘ a madman on the loose with the Satan bug threatening to wipe out God knows how much of England if his conditions are n't met ’ . |
| 16 | While Kenny is the quiet man before and during a match , Graeme is more volatile and likely to blow his top if his demands are n't met . |
| 17 | If those targets are n't met , passengers can claim compensation . |
| 18 | If these targets are n't met , there 'll be compensation . |
| 19 | If these are n't met staff could lose up to five per cent of their saleries . |
| 20 | But a woman , who , when her own needs are n't met , and when she 's slowly disintegrating , is not going to be able to give very much to the children , or give as much as she could , so it makes sense , if she 's really concerned about those children , that she will put , quite often , her own needs above them in order to get her act together , so that she 's in control and feels good about what she 's doing so she 'll be able to give more . |
| 21 | It 's a crisis about to get worse , because the farmers of Yarislavl are set to go on strike , if their demands are n't met , then one of the largest agricultural centres in the country will cut supplies of milk , poultry and meat . |
| 22 | Ruth Batsford , of the council 's electoral registration office , said : ‘ We really do n't have an explanation why people are n't sending the forms back . |
| 23 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 24 | Formulae are n't stored in cells on the worksheet , but in a separate window below . |
| 25 | Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them . |
| 26 | The R A F says its other Shackletons are n't flying today , but Mr King says that 's out of respect for the dead crewmen , not because of any technical problems . |
| 27 | So horses that are n't fed grain when they are young , may not only grow less than their genetic potential , but may also suffer other disadvantages when they are older . |
| 28 | External UPSs ca n't do that because they are n't connected to the PC 's system bus . |
| 29 | ‘ Folk are n't eating it like they used to , owing to the radioactivity from Sellafield , ’ the shopkeeper said . |
| 30 | You can serve drinks , even wines and spirits , to people who are n't eating . |