Example sentences of "it [is] not [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 2 | It 's not that that your Margaret ai n't got time to stop there and dry it for her , you know what I mean . |
| 3 | I mean it 's painful , I mean it 's not that this |
| 4 | Well now , it 's not that any of us are exactly against egalitarianism , democracy and ecological responsibility , any more than Americans are supposed to be ( or were , at least in pre-feminist and less health-conscious days ) against motherhood and apple pie . |
| 5 | You can cut yourself even when it 's not cos this is so sharp . |
| 6 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 7 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 8 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 9 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 10 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 11 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 12 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 13 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 14 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 15 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 16 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 17 | It is not that these issues are being dismissed in terms of their general abstract importance as a way of getting to grips with capitalism as a system . |
| 18 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 19 | It is not until that gift has been repaid and the exchange relationship put in balance again that a person will feel no sense of obligation . |
| 20 | It is not until these three conditions are present that the clause comes into operation . |
| 21 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |