Example sentences of "be not [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our basic quarrel with them is not that they are unappealing ( for unquestionably , some of them are ) but that they are untrue . |
| 2 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 3 | The answer is not that it is demonstrating ‘ wounded pride ’ , as its owners believe , but instead is revealing its social inferiority . |
| 4 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 5 | But ano but what I think would happen when we get maybe Mike or Chris or somebody helping , it 's not that they 're taking work off Wendy , but that we will do more physical checks , do you know what I mean , with the stock control . |
| 6 | It was ah no I mean it was you know it 's not that it was Do you mind if I watch the news at six ? |
| 7 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 8 | It 's not that anyone 's going to whip me if I do n't do it — but I know there 's going to be double the quantity tomorrow , so really I 'm just beating my own brow . |
| 9 | It 's not that you 're asking me , Oh well what happens if you . |
| 10 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 11 | This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in . |
| 12 | No I 'm not , no it 's not that I 'm thinking of . |
| 13 | Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them |
| 14 | Please understand — it 's not that I 'm doubting you in any way . |
| 15 | It 's not that I 'm denying the validity of acting , it 's just that it 's not as important to me . |
| 16 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
| 17 | It 's not that I 'm saying anything against them . |
| 18 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 19 | It 's not that she 's said , ‘ No , you must n't wear make-up ’ , but all my friends do , and sometimes I feel strange because I have n't got any . |
| 20 | It is n't that anybody 's stood still : my lot are now heads of departments , globe-trotting business woman , national charity organisers … and have produced a lot of daughters — for Somerville ? |
| 21 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 22 | It was not that she was weakening , she told herself , it would just be simpler to let him move the bureau . |
| 23 | The calculations would seem a lunatic fantasy if it was n't that they were produced by an organization which then occupied the centre stage of British energy policy . |
| 24 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 25 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 26 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |
| 27 | It was n't that she was feeling bad , but that worse , she was feeling nothing . |