Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 3 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 4 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 5 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 6 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 9 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 10 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 11 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 12 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 13 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 14 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 15 | The calculations would seem a lunatic fantasy if it was n't that they were produced by an organization which then occupied the centre stage of British energy policy . |
| 16 | It was n't that the new treatment was particularly bad , it was just that the very idea of a re-mix fell directly against the grain of the code of ethics publicly laid down by The Smiths . |
| 17 | It was n't that the programmes were bad , but they did not actually choose to cover different topics from male current affairs teams , while the whole hypothesis had been that they would in fact cover different topics — that there were uncovered topics in social policy and the rest of it . |
| 18 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 19 | It was n't that Amy was dirty ; she was continually washing herself , her hair , her few clothes . |
| 20 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 21 | It was n't that I would n't try Terry 's material , because we did try it ; it 's just that none of us really liked it . |
| 22 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 23 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 24 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 25 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 26 | It was n't that she doubted that the Allies would win — of course they would . |
| 27 | It was n't that she was afraid of them , or aggressive , or unpleasant . |
| 28 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 29 | It was n't that Miss Hatherby was in a state of undress , had her hair in curlers or anything obviously embarrassing like that . |
| 30 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |