Example sentences of "[not/n't] that we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 2 | The suggestion is not that we should lift the laws of libel , which would be one other possible step to take , because if we were to do so witnesses would be inhibited and the opportunity for justice would be damaged . |
| 3 | Not that we should over-emphasise Lorca 's surrealism . |
| 4 | ‘ The point ’ they say , ‘ is not that we should recognise semantic change , but that in order to be precise , in order to be understood , we must ’ . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 6 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 7 | Not that we can find , and he is n't saying . |
| 8 | Not that we can take any joy from declaring ‘ I told you so ’ . |