Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 2 | I 'm eating my penguin but , were n't that mine , that blue one ? |
| 3 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 4 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 5 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 6 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 7 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 8 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 9 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 10 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 11 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 12 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 13 | The trouble with most of the ‘ modern Christs ’ is not that they are anti-Christian but that they are unhistorical . |
| 14 | Our basic quarrel with them is not that they are unappealing ( for unquestionably , some of them are ) but that they are untrue . |
| 15 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 16 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 17 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
| 18 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 19 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 20 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 21 | What is ethologically implausible about Ullman 's hypotheses is not that they involve some ( unconscious ) knowledge about material objects and normal viewing conditions , but rather that they assume the perception of rigid objects to be basic , while perception of non-rigid movement is taken to be a more complex special case . |
| 22 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 23 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 24 | It is not that they are facts in the absolute . |
| 25 | The reason why Hambledon and Ryedale get different standard spending assessments is not that they are similar but that in some ways they are dissimilar . |
| 26 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 27 | It is not that we can not remember characters ' names , but that minor characters are often not important enough to bother about . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 29 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 30 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |