Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other .
2 If I recall rightly I think that it 's not that long ago that the licence was transferred to the present holder .
3 It 's not that long ago that Scots worked through Christmas , including Christmas day .
4 They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle .
5 It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now .
6 It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left .
7 But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad .
8 After all , it was n't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside .
9 It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years .
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