Example sentences of "they [be] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder , therefore , that egg producers feel they are not getting a fair deal . |
| 2 | and they 're not given a large amount of money |
| 3 | They 're not getting a long lie . |
| 4 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 5 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they look like they 're acting , the tape is rejected . |
| 6 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they 're looking at their watch , or they look like they 're acting , then the tape is rejected . ’ |
| 7 | oh er are yeah , Maxwell , you see his sons are clamming up , they 're not saying a flipping word |
| 8 | Well give it a go , I mean a monologue is a monologue , they 're not saying a Welsh monologue are they ? |
| 9 | This eventuality was almost inevitable , given the independent , entrepreneurial spirit of Roche and many of the new consultants he appointed , who felt they were not receiving a fair share of the profits . |
| 10 | I was at length summoned for interview , during which I was told that the War Office wished to fill a post of Instructor-cum-British Adviser at the Staff College and Royal Military College , Baghdad , Iraq , and that in order to reassure the Iraqi High Command that they were not sending a British ‘ plant ’ ( for relations between the two countries were strained ) , they asked the British Council to fill it . |
| 11 | Thus , when John the Baptist and then Jesus spoke of the ‘ Kingdom of God ’ or the ‘ Kingdom of Heaven ’ they were not introducing a novel concept which needed explaining . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , for all their historical theorizing the liberals were concerned with power : they were not restoring a lost medieval constitution but meeting the potential absolutism of a restored monarchy with fundamental laws derived from contractualist political theory . |
| 13 | and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them . |