Example sentences of "[is] not that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 5 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 6 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The trouble with most of the ‘ modern Christs ’ is not that they are anti-Christian but that they are unhistorical . |
| 11 | Our basic quarrel with them is not that they are unappealing ( for unquestionably , some of them are ) but that they are untrue . |
| 12 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 13 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is not that they are facts in the absolute . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is not that we can not remember characters ' names , but that minor characters are often not important enough to bother about . |
| 25 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The reason for setting out these reservations at such length is not that we have any doubts about the value to consumers of credit cost information . |
| 29 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 30 | ‘ The point ’ they say , ‘ is not that we should recognise semantic change , but that in order to be precise , in order to be understood , we must ’ . |