Example sentences of "'re not [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 2 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank God we 're not tied to the ailing economies of the West . |
| 4 | They 're not tied to a nine-to-five , that 's for sure . |
| 5 | I think the only drawback in that was , it 's been discuss , that , if you are dealing with money here you are expected to be , but I ca n't see that 'll make any difference because we 're not tied to National cost at the bazaar are we ? |
| 6 | Yeah you 're not tied to them dates at all . |
| 7 | But we 're not dictated to or dominated by the latest fashionable sample or the current BPM . |
| 8 | You do n't see all the ladies pulling their gloves on every time they go to church or appear in public , er and certainly men , very , very rarely wear , use gloves possibly , as we 're driving cars , we 're not exposed to the cold . |
| 9 | You 're not bound to the Mysteries . |
| 10 | Yeah well they 're not made to work are they |
| 11 | You ca n't knit such complex patterns this way , but you 're not limited to 24 stitches . |
| 12 | Are you sure you 're not related to that other Chris ? |
| 13 | Word supplies four styles of heading , but you 're not restricted to these . |
| 14 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 15 | The four first-year women at B subverted this by swapping lab books ; Marie said , ‘ We 're not meant to , but we do ’ — as if there were some shame attached to having to ask for help . |
| 16 | Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know . |
| 17 | They 're not meant to be crude or sensationalist , they give you an idea of the kind of thing that your fire fighters face on a regular basis . |
| 18 | You 're not meant to , they 've got antiseptic in them . |
| 19 | Oh Shane , who went in the lounge when you 're not meant to ? |
| 20 | They 're not paid to be amateur psychiatrists , but to be players , to be actors . |
| 21 | The fact that it does n't cause you immense emotional pain does n't mean you 're not committed to it . |
| 22 | You 're er for the moment you 're not committed to a party , you 've just got to take an individual decision and I know Maastricht is very complicated but there 's a lot of gut feeling as well as precise knowledge about these things , so I want to take a vote . |
| 23 | She tells you being fat ruined her life — nobody likes you if you 're fat , they 're not attracted to you . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're not allowed to Hana , it 's against the law ! ’ |
| 25 | I mean fire cleanses everything but , but you ca n't burn anything , you 're not allowed to . |
| 26 | ‘ No , Mum , they 're not allowed to by the Geneva Convention , ’ he said gently . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid we 're not allowed to er , Neil . |
| 28 | say that you 're not allowed to , to run those because they 'd be contrary to the directive , but er we 'd have to wait and see |
| 29 | Oh you 're not allowed to are you ? |
| 30 | Well they 're not allowed to , they 're not allowed to yeah but they 're not allowed to do that any more . |