Example sentences of "they be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While depression , incontinence , dementia , general aches and pains , and particular illnesses are more likely to develop they are not caused by old age itself . |
| 2 | This by no means commits them to the view that actions and attitudes are uncaused , merely to the more limited view that they are not caused by the properties of social wholes . |
| 3 | They are not caused by individual neurosis , but it is being asserted that religion is best understood as if it were a symptom of a neurosis of humanity as a whole . |
| 4 | To say that the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production requires a number of conditions to be met is not an explanation of how they are met , of what happens if they are not met , of whether they can be met in ‘ functionally equivalent ways ’ , or of why these needs are met . |
| 5 | If they are not met , old age may become a problem both to the individual and to society . |
| 6 | Thus they are not to ask how their decisions can best promote the general welfare . |
| 7 | The US Environmental Protection Agency has calculated that these unregulated substances could , if they are not incorporated into the Montreal Protocol , account for 40 per cent of stratospheric chlorine levels by 2075 . |
| 8 | Many of the ‘ social ’ or non-commercial objectives imposed on the railways by the state remain unacknowledged ; they are not incorporated into calculations of state financial compensation and state control has thus been weakened since railway management has been given reasonable pretexts for failing to meet targets . |
| 9 | When they get drunk , have a binge , take on yet another new project or make even more plans for someone else 's recovery , they are not relapsing ; they are still suffering , still believing that they can compromise with the concept of powerlessness over mind-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 10 | Autocar & Motor is unobtainable at 99 per cent of newsagents ; they wo n't sell it because they are not reimbursed for unsold copies . |
| 11 | Theoretical concepts like Saussure 's langue help to reassure linguists that they are not dealing directly with speakers who inhabit the real world of social and power relations , but only with a pure , decontextualised system . |
| 12 | She also helps with the care assistants , giving them something to do when they are not dealing with me . |
| 13 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 14 | ‘ Probably ’ , because they are not categorised that way and may simply enrol for classes along with other students . |
| 15 | They are not liquorice allsorts . |
| 16 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 17 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 18 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 19 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 20 | They are not seen as ‘ old ’ . |
| 21 | As permutations of speed restraint measures , lower speed limits and priority changes are not part of the package being applied in new areas , they are not seen as appropriate for existing ones either . |
| 22 | So , in their own interest , the firms should be very careful that the finger is not pointed at them , that they are not seen to have acted in a way that abuses their power and cuts across their independence and integrity . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps , though regrettably , they are not seen as a central core of independence which may reside elsewhere-'in my head or in my dreams ' . |
| 24 | The first advantage to the participating company of all of these types of activity is that they are not seen by the reader as advertising but as part of the editorial content of the magazine and therefore as having the endorsement of the editorial staff . |
| 25 | No novelist writing earlier than Dickens would , for example , have concentrated on a boarding house — not that fictional characters do n't stay in them occasionally , but they are not seen from the landlady 's ( or boarding house 's ) point of view . |
| 26 | They are not seen in shelter or on broken surfaces . |
| 27 | If women do that then they are not seen by their children . |
| 28 | If the alternatives are to work , we must take care that they are not seen as a reward for those who become involved in such activities . |
| 29 | As detailed explanations are provided earlier in the book they are not given here , but I have included appropriate chapter references in the text . |
| 30 | Needless to say , small firms are less able to maintain high levels of bank deposits and they are not given the priority accorded to the privileged class of borrowers among large companies . |