Example sentences of "be not [adv] [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 2 | It is not enough that he believes them to have been stolen : Haughton v Smith [ 1975 ] AC 476 ( HL ) . |
| 3 | in the marriage relationship it 's not just that he says I have taken you , and all that you have now is mine , I take your debt and I discharge it fully , your debt of holiness to God , your debt of righteousness to God , he says I take it and I pay that price in full ! |
| 4 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 5 | It 's not just that he needs the money . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 7 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 8 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 11 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was n't exactly that he wanted a present . |
| 14 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was n't often that he had a whole day out on the moor . |