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 . |