Example sentences of "it be not [adv] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not just that your inability to go out is restricting your life ; as you say , your daughter is missing out on many of the events and activities that help a child 's emotional and social progress . |
| 2 | It is not only that our version of poverty — a mean and ragged insufficiency — is destructive , but so , also , is our version of wealth . |
| 3 | Secondly , it is not enough that his contemplation is that there is a remote possibility but there must be a real possibility of a breach of the peace . ’ |
| 4 | However , it is n't just that their perceptions and responses are affected by their beliefs . |
| 5 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 6 | It was n't just that their possessions , wood and porcelain , paint and linen , symbolised their joint life . |
| 7 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 8 | It was not only that his daughter in this prepossessing dining room seemed an unfamiliar creature , that his son was slightly uncomfortable , and that Thomas with his mercurial wit and ironic eyes felt like a friend recovered from a distant past . |
| 9 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |