Example sentences of "they [be] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , they 're not open twelve hours like my shops , and they are n't using the space . ’ |
| 2 | They are n't lying — indeed , they 're all trying to be utterly sincere — but they are n't telling the truth . |
| 3 | Cos they are n't talking the queen 's English ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In my opinion it is not because they are not capable , it 's because they are not given the opportunity . |
| 6 | With international competition and new entrants , national monopolies such as France 's will at least have to come clean about costs and pricing if only to prove that they are not breaching the Rome treaty 's clauses against unfair competition . |
| 7 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 8 | How can consumers initiate healthy eating plans when they are not receiving the information they need in comprehensible form ? |
| 9 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 10 | They are not delivering the goods today . |
| 11 | Now we know they are not telling the truth . |
| 12 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 13 | But unfortunately , they are not getting the opportunity because of er some of the management failings means that they 're not actually getting the contracts to which they 're entitled . |
| 14 | They must retain the calm spaciousness of movement if they are not to destroy the essence of the classical style . |
| 15 | They may fear that they are not using the ‘ right ’ words . |
| 16 | But if they are not using the credit facility we are not making much profit out of them either . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If they are not able to improve services at that level of spending they are not using the money efficiently and to the real benefit of the people in the town , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ They are not using the services in their own authorities so SSDs are misled into believing there is n't a demand for services . |
| 19 | Apart from the fact that they are not organising the elections — this is being done by South Africa 's AG but only monitoring them , South Africa and their supporters started their campaign months ago . |
| 20 | It is one of the enduring sadnesses of people in such relationships that they are not offered the same respect and sympathy as man and wife . |
| 21 | They are not adopting the broader role that we envisaged . |
| 22 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |
| 23 | However , Kent police say the body showed no outward signs of violence and they are not treating the death as suspicious . |
| 24 | POLICE have revealed that they are not treating the death of a man outside a Middlesbrough pub as suspicious . |
| 25 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 26 | Those who use the term ‘ paragraph ’ to describe a unit in the structural analysis of written discourse go to some trouble to point out that they are not describing the orthographic paragraph . |
| 27 | They are not questioning the potential value of , in this context , high-quality environmental information per se . |
| 28 | Police say they are not linking the two incidents . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Fortunately they are not driving the car , because they are the waxworks of deposed rulers : King Peter of Jugoslavia and General Neguibe of Egypt , dressed as spacemen . |