Example sentences of "be not [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 3 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 4 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not that he minds , ’ her mother said , wearily , as always , explaining and defending her husband to their daughter . |
| 6 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 7 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 8 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But , explained John Gapper , the secretary of the Labour and Industrial Correspondents Group : ‘ His office says this is not because he does not like us ’ . |
| 11 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 17 | It 's not that he 's got anything against the party 's Purcell anthem , he says , but young voters in particular prefer Bryan Adams . |
| 18 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 19 | ‘ If the chairman keeps me , it 's not because he thinks I 'm a good chap or the world 's a nicer place when I 'm here . |
| 20 | He 's not like he seems on the talkshows . |
| 21 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 22 | It was not that he had been dilatory in his duty of interviewing all those sent to the camp who were in any way , minor or major , special . |
| 23 | It was not that he had never loved his only child . |
| 24 | It was not that he posed any real threat ( although he was discussing collaboration with moderate socialist exiles ) . |
| 25 | It was not that he boasted — or not very much . |
| 26 | Although Glam was finally banished it was not before he had cursed his employer , saying he would ‘ see with a ghost 's sight ’ . |
| 27 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |
| 28 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 29 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 30 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |