Example sentences of "[be] not there [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 2 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 3 | They are not there to criticise you , unless you force the criticism on them . |
| 4 | In other words , according to the philosophy of the head teacher , the teachers are not there to teach at all , but merely to supervise the children as they try to learn by themselves . |
| 5 | This pattern of occasional rewards ( something we all experience in daily life ) will help your child to maintain a pattern of behaviour even when you are not there to give encouragement to him . |
| 6 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 7 | They are not there to help us avoid heartache or hurt — that 's not possible for real , alive , relating human beings . |
| 8 | From the pupils ' perspective they are not there to accept passively any offensive action on the part of the teachers merely because they are pupils . |
| 9 | The counsellors are not there to tell any young person what to do though if they are asked for practical advice they will give it . |
| 10 | The Defence Ministry said last night : ‘ They are not there to fight a full-scale war . |
| 11 | you 're not there to deal with it . |
| 12 | ‘ I get criticised for not going to the cinema to see people 's reaction — but I 'm not there to review the audience . ’ |
| 13 | Lina 's role was to persuade the Ashleys that journalists were not there to pry , but to promote . |
| 14 | He warned the jury that they were not there to judge anybody , but to decide how the unfortunate Mr Oliver had died , and if there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal proceedings against anybody . |
| 15 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 16 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 17 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 18 | I feel frustrated because the political will is not there to call a halt to the violence . ’ |
| 19 | The Commissioner is not there to canvass for work , but she does consider that publicity is a valid function of her office . |
| 20 | But , the VGA stresses , psychometric testing is not there to glean the wheat and discard the chaff . |
| 21 | ‘ Nick Faldo is not there to take it easy , but that 's Faldo 's game . |
| 22 | In cases of sex murder the victim is not there to defend herself against accusations that her conduct was so dreadful as to excuse , at least partially , the man 's killing her . |
| 23 | Remember : the lecturer is not there to teach you . |
| 24 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 25 | It is not there to prevent crime ; it is there to promote the work of the police . |
| 26 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 27 | But the Court is not there to recreate relationships . ’ |
| 28 | Which is recognizing that it 's not there to start with . |
| 29 | it 's , it 's al the quality 's not there to start with . |
| 30 | I framed my remarks in a hypothetical context following on from delegation to the regional arts boards , and I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not there to listen and to learn . |