Example sentences of "[is] not [adv] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is not just that international affairs are hard to reduce to intellectual order , perhaps because they are changing character even as one tries . |
| 2 | In other words , it is not just that elderly women experience a higher incidence of poverty according to the social assistance measure of poverty . |
| 3 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 4 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 5 | surprising proposition is not merely that pastoral peoples do in fact show a fastidiousness with regard to the excremental functions which is totally unknown among primeval hunter-gatherers and rarely seen among agriculturalists ( although in their case the situation is complicated by subsequent introduction of domesticated animals ) , but that toilet-training and the mastery of the anal sphincter is , as we know from observation of our own children , intimately involved with sadistic instinctual trends and consists in the child accepting self-censorship of his anal and excremental drives . |
| 6 | The point here is not merely that full employment creates a scarcity of labour and so automatically puts up its price , not such that the unions negotiating with already willing and , indeed , anxious buyers would remain relatively passive as buyers bid against one another . |
| 7 | It is not often that social workers are given the opportunity to work closely with people at the end of their lives . |
| 8 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |
| 9 | It is not only that other scientists can not know whether such effects occurred in the experimenter 's interaction with his subjects ; the investigator himself may not know whether these effects have occurred . |
| 10 | Naturally the library should be careful in its choice of business association ( from the point of view of image ) but the advantage of such joint efforts is not only that promotional costs may be saved but they may generate income for the library . |