Example sentences of "it [was/were] [not/n't] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't that Nisodemus was stupid . |
| 2 | It was n't that Amy was dirty ; she was continually washing herself , her hair , her few clothes . |
| 3 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 4 | It was n't that Katherine was n't enamoured of Paris . |
| 5 | It was n't that Miss Hatherby was in a state of undress , had her hair in curlers or anything obviously embarrassing like that . |
| 6 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 7 | It was n't that people were stupid . |
| 8 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 9 | It was not that Buchanan doubted the accuracy of Kipling 's descriptions of army outrages : soldiers rampaging drunkenly in the streets , for example , fighting with the buckle-ends of their belts . |
| 10 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 11 | It was not that Russia is poor — many countries in Asia , Africa and Latin America are poorer . |
| 12 | It was not that men held the power , but that men were the power . |
| 13 | It was not that evangelicals or Quakers or even more rational Christians doubted their ultimate dependence on Providence . |
| 14 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 15 | It was not that Mr Grey 's enthusiasm for selling books had waned , rather that he was convinced of the advantages of diversification . |