Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] it have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 2 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 3 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
| 4 | He spoke the truth but not until it had been subjected to the most stringent test — himself ! |
| 5 | One could argue pop has declined not because it has been infiltrated by a counter-cultural message , but because of the demise of the Sixties counter-culture . |
| 6 | But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’ |