Example sentences of "it was not [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 2 | So it was n't really surprising that we did n't recognise Ollie when we got into the arrivals hall . |
| 3 | But Cleo wrote letters though it was n't humanly possible that she should . |
| 4 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 5 | But it was n't so much that she was scared as bewildered and full of shame , then ashamed of her tears and one thing hard-tailing the other her head fuzzed and the classroom swam . |
| 6 | It was n't so much that Kefalov appeared already to be a more sordid city than the capital , as that this particular city had n't been devastated at all . |
| 7 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't so much that she wanted to leave home . |
| 9 | Perhaps , then , it was n't so surprising that Lorne had one or two funny ideas about himself . |
| 10 | I was only on the waiting list anyway and it was n't very likely that four people would drop out . |
| 11 | It was n't very likely that he was going to want to get involved again , was it ? |
| 12 | Not much was known about them , and no Yek had ever visited them — the Yek were not keen sailors — it was not even certain that they were inhabited . |
| 13 | The back of the canvas chair had been turned towards the town , and in the gloom it was not immediately apparent that someone was sitting in it . |
| 14 | ‘ So it was not altogether true that Cuchulain did not kill messengers , ’ a monk dutifully recorded . |
| 15 | So it was not really surprising that despite his upwardly mobile outlook , Collor attended the paupers ' summit in June 1990 at which fifteen debtor nations from the underdeveloped South discussed their predicament . |
| 16 | It was not quite true that this was the only connecting link . |
| 17 | It was not therefore surprising that few industries had a positive policy of encouraging the employment of those past statutory retirement pension age . |
| 18 | It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay . |
| 19 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 20 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 21 | It was not so much that she distrusted banks as the bother for the visit . |
| 22 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 23 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 24 | However , it is important to note that PNP provided the resources and framework for the considerable expansion and diversification of such courses between 1985 and 1990 : it was not so much that PNP was submerged as that PNP and primary provision became synonymous . |
| 25 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 26 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 27 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 28 | Firstly , it was not entirely unexpected that giant multinational German companies would be committed to providing a comprehensive language training service . |