Example sentences of "[pron] is not something [that] " in BNC.

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1 I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity .
2 Nevertheless it is not something that we can ignore , for the teacher needs feedback from her students ' performances in order to judge the effectiveness of her teaching and may need to know that students have reached certain standards before progressing to more difficult work .
3 Religion is not an individualistic affair ; it is not something that concerns a man in isolation from his fellow men ; it is not simply a matter for the individual soul seeking release , or mok a , from the endless cycle of birth , death and rebirth , or sa sāra .
4 It is not something that I have and you do not , or vice versa ; nor is it a commodity with which some people have the good fortune to be more generously endowed than others .
5 In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation .
6 I have prefaced this last thought with the word " ideally " since I know it is not something that is at all easy to achieve .
7 It is not something that will bring them to the Church and to Jesus .
8 It is not something that people easily embark upon .
9 In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish .
10 Assimilation of place is only noticeable in this regressive assimilation of alveolar consonants ; it is not something that foreign learners need to learn to do .
11 However , it is not something that happens overnight .
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