Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [that] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 2 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 3 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 4 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | The trouble with most of the ‘ modern Christs ’ is not that they are anti-Christian but that they are unhistorical . |
| 7 | Our basic quarrel with them is not that they are unappealing ( for unquestionably , some of them are ) but that they are untrue . |
| 8 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 9 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 10 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 11 | It is not that they are facts in the absolute . |
| 12 | The reason why Hambledon and Ryedale get different standard spending assessments is not that they are similar but that in some ways they are dissimilar . |
| 13 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 14 | It is not that we are afraid to do so but simply that the occasion never really arises . |
| 15 | The idea is not that you 're actors on this course , but that you 're learning how to film |
| 16 | For example , it is often the case that the essential characteristic of a " slave " is not that he is in a servile position or economically disadvantaged but that , not being a kinsman , he is denied the rights of a full human being . |
| 17 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 18 | The trouble with that stuff is not that it 's bad , but that it 's not bad enough . |
| 19 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 20 | To most Anglicans now , though , the main thing about the papacy is not that it is evil — that seems an absurd accusation — but that it is frequently silly and wrong . |
| 21 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 22 | The answer is not that it is demonstrating ‘ wounded pride ’ , as its owners believe , but instead is revealing its social inferiority . |
| 23 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 24 | Or , as John Wisdom was later to put it , ‘ the peculiarity of the soul is not that it is visible to none but that it is visible only to one ’ . |
| 25 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 26 | The ultimate justification of punishment is not that it is a deterrent , but that it is the emphatic denunciation by the community of a crime . |
| 27 | The point of this statement is not that it is true . |
| 28 | What distinguishes the British Constitution from others is not that it is unwritten , but rather that it is part-written and uncodified . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 30 | It is not that I am heartless . |