Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 5 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 6 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 7 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 13 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |