Example sentences of "it is not that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is not that kind of explanation and dependence that is in question with causation .
2 It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute .
3 It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity .
4 It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away .
5 David Bohm proposed that consciousness is basically in the ‘ implicate order ’ as all matter is , and therefore it is not that consciousness is separate from matter but rather that consciousness manifests in the ‘ explicate order ’ as does all matter .
6 And it is not that breach of duty which gives rise to the action .
7 Those who would like the tax to be the same for everyone , no matter where they live and no matter what property they live in , will be disappointed by the council tax because , frankly , it is not that sort of tax .
8 It is not that stylistics is uninterested in this or that local feature of a text ; but rather that local or specific features have to be seen in relation to other features , against the background of the pervasive tendency of preferences in the text .
9 It is n't that famine in Africa is actually anything new ; the emaciated , wide-eyed child of a decade of Oxfam advertisements is far too familiar to allow that .
10 But ( unlike the Tories ) it is n't that kind of outfit .
11 To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers .
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