Example sentences of "[noun sg] be not that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daddy 's not that way dad , where 's he gone ? |
| 2 | This criticism is not that instrumentalism is untheoretical , but rather that its hidden assumptions when made explicit are revealed as limited . |
| 3 | Our need to look more closely at the working relationship is not that strife and strikes are an issue of constant interest , nor that work conflicts are part of the distressing experience of vast numbers . |
| 4 | The argument was not that mutation itself caused senescence , but rather that , given some mutation load , the adaptive evolution of modifiers would shift the effects of that load to later life . |
| 5 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
| 6 | However , there can be no ground for the initial association : my perception of the pen in my hand is not that pen , however much I " enter into " the latter . |
| 7 | The suggestion is not that music must hurt but great music both reveals wounds and provides a balm . |
| 8 | The answer is not that feminism , or society in general , has set out to discriminate — linguistically or otherwise — against men . |
| 9 | The central problem is not that power has shifted from national governments and Parliament to Europe , but that it has shifted towards the Commission and the Council of Ministers . |