Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [not/n't] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | That you are n't here to blackmail someone ? |
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 | The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it . |
15 | ‘ 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | They are not there to criticise you , unless you force the criticism on them . |
18 | They are not there to help us avoid heartache or hurt — that 's not possible for real , alive , relating human beings . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The Defence Ministry said last night : ‘ They are not there to fight a full-scale war . |
21 | 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 . |