Example sentences of "be not that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 3 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 4 | It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was signing . |
| 5 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 6 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |