Example sentences of "[was/were] not that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that the animal was hungry . |
| 2 | It was not that the folk of London were more pious than those of San Gimignano — both evidently shared in their way in the popular religious revivals of this age ; nor that they were less gentrified . |
| 3 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 4 | It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America . |
| 5 | The immediate cause of the split was the constitutional changes taking place in the Labour Party ; it was not that the Gang of Four and their sympathizers objected to reforms which improved internal party democracy , but they opposed the particular type of reform which was designed to strengthen the position of Left-wing elements in the Labour movement . |
| 6 | It was not that the mines were not producing for between 1564–1570 metal to the value of £31,167 was sold , but even this did not cover the operating costs . |
| 7 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 8 | One historian has written that the criticism was not that the charges were too high , but that there were any at all and has explained the opposition to fixed charges as conservative reaction to a money economy in which one paid for services rendered . |
| 9 | It was not that the wives and children of hand-loom weavers did not work . |
| 10 | But the reason that US business was investing so much in Europe and elsewhere was not that the United States could run a balance of payments deficit financed by borrowing from central banks overseas . |