Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's not about Alfred that I 'm here but another matter altogether . |
| 2 | But it 's not for football that they fear — it is for the danger of crowd violence . |
| 3 | But it is not via Lourdes that I would choose to enter Bigorre . |
| 4 | How he heard of verre anglais is unclear , but it is not beyond belief that it stemmed from rumours that effervescing Champagne had become a popular drink in England . |
| 5 | It is not without significance that the sub-title of his autobiography is ‘ The Story of my experiments with Truth ’ , and his whole life might well a interpreted as an attempt to live in accordance with or an existential quest for Truth . |
| 6 | We have already noted that he interprets the Gītā as a call to action and it is not without significance that he has been described as one of the foremost activist theoreticians and as a karmayogin . |
| 7 | It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists . |
| 8 | It is not without significance that in the present case Mr. Bookbinder 's action for libel is based upon the same complaints as those made by the council . |
| 9 | It is not without significance that throughout the debate there have never been more than half a dozen hon. Members on either side of the House . |
| 10 | Moreover , it is not without point that national economic consensus was at its strongest in the late 1950s under the premiership of Harold Macmillan . |
| 11 | It is not without interest that , over one hundred years ago , in Dietrich v. Northampton ( 1884 ) 138 Mass. 14 Holmes J. anticipated the argument , at p. 16 : |
| 12 | It is not without reason that contracts of employment in most civilized countries are geared to a working week of between thirty-seven and forty-four hours . |
| 13 | The attempt to subvert binary logic threatens to invalidate the structuralist enterprise , and it is not without reason that in the early seventies Kristeva , Irigaray , and other women theorists began to map structuralism 's binary logic onto the social and discursive oppression of women by men . |
| 14 | It is not in doubt that as against Pantell S.A. the court has jurisdiction to make an order under section 6(2) for the restoration of the status quo ante . |
| 15 | But it is not in doubt that salmon rely critically on their sense of smell to guide them home . |
| 16 | It is not by chance that , in his History of Art , movements such as Mannerism are undervalued and considered periods of artistic involution . |
| 17 | It is not by accident that the excellent report by Norman Thomas on Improving primary schools for the ILEA ( ILEA 1985 ) was governed by the requirement |
| 18 | It is not by accident that the countries within the ERM — viz Spain and Ireland — and countries shadowing the system — such as Sweden and Norway — believe that the price of higher than warranted interest rates , from their domestic point of view , is nevertheless worth paying , in return for the longer-term stability that the ERM will provide . |
| 19 | Although he moved to Halling in May it was n't until October that they married . |
| 20 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 21 | It was n't until Thursday that it occurred to Loretta that if she was going near Oxford , she might as well call in on Bridget . |
| 22 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 23 | To cut a long story short , it was n't until Wednesday that I could fit my shoes for the wedding , which was Thursday ! |
| 24 | Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century ‘ citizenship ’ had been part of the civilizing process ; so it was not without reason that T. H. S. Escott , writing in 1897 , described ‘ Social Citizenship ’ as ‘ a Moral growth of Victorian England ’ , probably best exemplified by the Settlement Movement , beginning in the 1880s , with its emphasis on ‘ civic idealism ’ . |
| 25 | But it was not to Rachel that she would go , but to her mummy . |
| 26 | It was not for money that he had the bear dance to amuse commuters . |
| 27 | But it was not for Dorothy that she searched , nor even for her father . |
| 28 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 29 | A further delay ensued and it was not until July that the two great armies finally set forth on the third anniversary of the Battle of Hattin . |
| 30 | It was not until January that EMI at last rid themselves of the Sex Pistols — ‘ in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last two months ’ , as an official statement put it — and at a cost of £50,000 in settlement . |