Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [not/n't] that he " in BNC.
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1 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
2 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
3 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
4 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
5 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |
6 | It 's not that he 's 27 years old or an amateur boxer , but that he 's black . |
7 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
8 | I do n't know — it 's not that he 's my dad . |
9 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
10 | It 's not that he 's got anything against the party 's Purcell anthem , he says , but young voters in particular prefer Bryan Adams . |
11 | It 's not that he 's unfriendly or awkward or rude , merely uncomfortable at being in the spotlight without a character to hide behind . |
12 | say Chris , it 's not that he ca n't though Madge , he just wo n't |
13 | so I er he said er no he said , it 's not that he said I do n't like people to tell me you 've got to do overtime today , he said , I like to be asked ! |
14 | It 's not that he 's being kicked out . |
15 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
16 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
17 | It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes . |
18 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
19 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
20 | ‘ It is not that he minds , ’ her mother said , wearily , as always , explaining and defending her husband to their daughter . |
21 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
22 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
23 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
24 | It was n't that he feared betrayal . |
25 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
26 | It was n't that he would n't help , often he did , but he believed that by delegating he brought out the best in people , that they would rise to the challenge , and he had other things to be done . ’ |
27 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
28 | It was n't that he did n't like women , you understand , he simply stayed faithful to one who was dead . |
29 | It was n't that he was bored by his wife ; |
30 | It was n't that he was bored with the show , he was bored with his lines . |