Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , however , things are not quite that simple . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what we call it but most of the books are not all that rare . |
| 3 | Yet the distinctions , emphasised by regionalists searching for cultural backing , are not all that great . |
| 4 | It did n't seem at all likely that it could have anything to do with Stavanger , and corpses in the Thames , alas , are not all that infrequent . |
| 5 | The notes on our file are not all that complete . ’ |
| 6 | Either way he claims , the networks left out are not all that important ; ‘ we have , for example , some Telematics kit in the Turks and Caicos ’ , he says . |
| 7 | If the income effect is large for those in high income tax brackets , it may not be implausible to suppose that the overall adverse work consequences are not all that large . |
| 8 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 9 | They 're not not that thick but certainly that thick . |
| 10 | And they 're not all that marvellous . |
| 11 | erm At the moment , well I would have thought that that was really unrealistic you know , the three teams joining together because geographically , they 're not really that close . |
| 12 | they 're not all that marvellous , they 're not really that much to look up |
| 13 | Though I may well seem aged to you , Jo , I 'm not yet that old . ’ |
| 14 | This is the second war of course , I 'm not quite that old . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not quite that altruistic . ’ |
| 16 | Erm I 'm not all that impressed . |
| 17 | But I should warn you , I 'm not all that hungry . ’ |
| 18 | Mungo heard himself saying : ‘ I 'm not all that surprised . ’ |
| 19 | I I I think really they er they forget that that there 's a quite a large number of the population , they do think about what 's going on , and they 're not all children and they 're not and are n't all that easy easily persuaded . |
| 20 | ‘ I admit , sir , that the alternatives are n't all that attractive . |
| 21 | However , the practicalities are n't always that straightforward . |
| 22 | And the paternalistic traditions of the great landowners could be married relatively easily to the responsibilities of a Welfare State , because in many ways they were not really that different . |
| 23 | But they were n't really that super . |
| 24 | Despite the impression given by some articles , marriage is not the only relationship and many non-marrieds equally find that adjusting to retirement is not always that easy . |
| 25 | But as always it is not quite that simple . |
| 26 | You might think the answer would be ‘ no ’ , but the position is not quite that simple . |
| 27 | It is not often that two such good books are written within such a short space of each other . |
| 28 | The gap between the operating incomes of Toyota , Honda and Nissan is not all that wide . |
| 29 | Consumer confidence is not all that far from that , but , from the retailer 's point of view , it does not pay the staff wages . |
| 30 | Issue 100 is not all that far away . |