Example sentences of "they [am/are] not [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my opinion it is not because they are not capable , it 's because they are not given the opportunity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Where the market is allocated on the basis of tenders , more intricate measures may be needed to ensure that the contracts are shared out , including perhaps ‘ allocation ’ of each contract to a particular firm and agreement on how the other firms will rig their bids to ensure that they are not awarded the contract ‘ by mistake ’ . |
| 4 | Scuffles are reported but they 're not given the chance to develop into any serious disturbance . |
| 5 | Their immune system would be quite normal , right , if they 're not given the protein , they 're actually going to run into problems are n't they , but we have to overcome that by other , other ways . |