Example sentences of "is not [conj] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 2 | It is not that once we know something we commit ourselves to it but that knowing something is itself a commitment . |
| 3 | And it is not , she thought , sliding the mottled skin deftly off her fish , it is not as though we are starving . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 5 | It is not as though we do n't want to love these innocent victims or that they do not want to be loved , but guilt and bitterness prevent it — the guilt of all parties . |
| 6 | It is not as though they are paid a bonus for this production-line fishing . |
| 7 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
| 8 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 9 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 10 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 11 | So it is not as though it 's a young player who 's going out of the game and you 're telling them I 'm sorry your not going to make it with Warwickshire . |