Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the tears that fall at the time , |
| 2 | It was not the Faculty that offered to cooperate with the IoT over examinations , but the IoT which made the offer to the Faculty . |
| 3 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 4 | But as the trouble escalates , media coverage concentrates on the riots themselves and not the injustice that caused them . |
| 5 | They want the child but not the relationship that goes with it . |
| 6 | It 's not other people , it 's not the problems that surround us , it 's not the people that we have to work with or the conditions in work , it 's not the next door neighbours , terrible though they may be , the real answer , for you and for me , lies within ourselves . |
| 7 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 8 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 9 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
| 10 | Not the bottle that guarantees to turn your grey hair black or make your bald pate sprout again , but something else . |
| 11 | We should be laughing at Frank , not the mechanics that keep the comedy moving . |
| 12 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 13 | The Mexican Government wanted to pretend that it was not the army that guaranteed them the land . |
| 14 | I mean , you get the lowdown on stuff that writers never get , because you 're working with these people and you get the real story — not the stuff that goes on in books and magazines . |
| 15 | Now , all this may be true but it is not the message that comes blaring from greeting cards shops in North Yorkshire or anywhere else . |
| 16 | All those who argue that it is the medium not the message that characterizes this revolution are , in my view , entirely wrong . |
| 17 | The face make-up was known as ‘ fleshing ’ ; it was then a natural colour , not the tan that became popular later on . |
| 18 | I have described the process of operant conditioning discovered by the behaviourists , but not the philosophy that guided them . |
| 19 | Not only does municipal rubbish seem to be growing more slowly than many people imagine ; the components which appear to be increasing are not the ones that have attracted most attention . |
| 20 | See it 's not the blues that bother me I do n't think it 's just the fact that there 's there might be trouble afterwards . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not the road that worries me . |
| 22 | ‘ In our party we know that it is not the State that builds the success of a Nation . |
| 23 | It 's not the money that makes me happy . |
| 24 | But although Bob would recognise its shape and energy , this is not the music that ran the borders when he was alive . |
| 25 | Only order-based summaries such as medians can be transformed in this way ; it is not the case that mean ( log X ) is the same as log ( mean X ) , for example . |
| 26 | If it can be demonstrated beyond doubt that a ray of light passing close to the sun is deflected in a curved path , then it is not the case that light necessarily travels in straight lines . |
| 27 | It is not the streets that exist . |
| 28 | Turner 's Slave Ship which was so highly praised by Ruskin , shows faithfully the horror and evil of that traffic and it is the emotion , not the technique that has given the painting its immortality . |
| 29 | But that is not the choice that faces an individual soldier . |
| 30 | DR WHO is dead , but it was not the Daleks that got him , it was his own sexism . |