Example sentences of "not [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 3 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 4 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 5 | She had not been that way before . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , to guarantee that four satellites will always be visible would require 24 of them — and there will not be that many around for another few years . |
| 7 | Surely it could not be that , whilst they were classifying the laws governing the physical world , they were themselves under no moral order , but existing in a chaos of random motion ? |
| 8 | If no one could learn anything from my saying , ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , there would not be that use of ‘ Here ’ . |
| 9 | The program personality presented to the student , and to the teacher , need not be that of a neutral machine — it can show a variety of human attributes , and the balancing of these in the design of the program is an important matter in which there is room for a variety of approaches . |
| 10 | When it withdrew I licked my salty upper lip and said , " That was n't so bad … do you think it might not be that ? " |
| 11 | I will not be that man . |
| 12 | The relation between stress and strain in rubbers and other polymers capable of high reversible extensions can not be that of Hooke 's law except at the start of the deformation where the strain approaches an infinitesimal value . |
| 13 | But it need not be that way and there is evidence to prove it . |
| 14 | It does n't in any way claim to be an absolutely up to the minute report of absolutely everything that we 've done in the previously twelve months since last Congress , and quite frankly , it just could not be that . |
| 15 | ‘ Last season is gone — we had an advantage then but it might not be that way this time . |
| 16 | Well , not being that kind of a girl , I was n't goin' to stay there with me virtue in danger . ’ |
| 17 | Bert not being that clever with figures opts for straight line depreciation on all the fixed assets . |
| 18 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 19 | No , we 're not is that answer to that ! |