Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [is] not that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 2 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 3 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 4 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 5 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 6 | The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another |
| 7 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 8 | The educational implication is not that the contestation of caricatures of black histories and cultures in school texts should cease , but that it should not be premised on the stifling aesthetic of the positive image . |
| 9 | Today the major worry about the interest-investment link is not that the investment curve is inelastic , but rather that it shifts erratically with the confidence of investors . |
| 10 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
| 11 | To an outsider , though , the surprising thing is not that Spain 's conservatives are inching ahead but that they are making such heavy weather of it . |
| 12 | The true position is not that the directors must take account of the interests of future shareholders , but rather that they have a discretion concerning the time-scale over which existing members may be benefited . |
| 13 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |