Example sentences of "be not [adv] that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there was an are n't somewhere that you had . |
| 2 | Well it 's not just that it destroyed |
| 3 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 4 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 5 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 6 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 7 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 8 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 9 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 10 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 11 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 12 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 13 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 14 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 15 | It was n't exactly that he wanted a present . |
| 16 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
| 17 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
| 18 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 19 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
| 20 | It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't even that I felt unhappy . |
| 22 | It was n't merely that he had lost stones in weight — dash it , the man 's sobriquet was a libel now — but that his whole demeanour was that of a soldier completely confused , completely disorientated . |
| 23 | It was n't often that he had a whole day out on the moor . |
| 24 | There was a game was n't there that they played |