Example sentences of "[pron] are not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Congress , I know I 'm speaking to the team , but it 's up to us and the activists who are not here to motivate our members and get this campaign off the ground and by supporting this motion , we will be putting the first foot on the ladder to defeating the government 's pay policy .
2 You are not here to verify ,
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Therefore , you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract .
6 We are not here to sort out the world 's problems ! ’
7 ‘ There is a great public demand for information on food and nutrition — and we are not here to sell a particular line , ’ he said .
8 ‘ Surely , Sir John , we are not here to discuss the mysterious death of a piglet ? ’
9 ‘ No , we are not here to discuss the death of a pig but the murder of a priest , Richard Waldegrave ! ’
10 We are not here to have a good time . ’
11 Chairman of the bench Lawrie Wild told vociferous protesters : ‘ We are not here to hear your objections , we are here to look at the site . ’
12 ‘ Dr. Briant , let me tell you here and now that we are not here to make judgments .
13 We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it .
14 From a commercial point of view , there are not enough to go round .
15 When there are not enough to go round ?
16 The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it .
17 ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury .
18 She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home .
19 They are not there to criticise you , unless you force the criticism on them .
20 They are not there to help us avoid heartache or hurt — that 's not possible for real , alive , relating human beings .
21 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 .
22 The Defence Ministry said last night : ‘ They are not there to fight a full-scale war .
23 That it should be worked out fairly is as important for the police as for the protesters since the police in their non-public order role , for example in the normal course of investigating and detecting crime , require the cooperation and help of people similar to those whose freedoms to protest they are not only to control but to control fairly .
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