Example sentences of "it [be] not [adj] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but it 's not good that I 'm clocking , slugging my heart out . |
| 2 | I may be the first challenger for Lennox , so it 's not surprising that I 'm behind Bowe . ’ |
| 3 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 4 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 5 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 6 | It 's not true that I saw no one while I was writing my book reviews in the printer 's office . |
| 7 | And it 's not true that I do n't get anything out of it when I see him . |
| 8 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 9 | Given my background , as described in the previous chapter , it is not surprising that I should have felt particularly sensitive on this point . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 11 | It was not surprising that I had come to hate her . |