Example sentences of "be [not/n't] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 2 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 3 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 4 | The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another |
| 5 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 6 | What is crucial , then , is not that a particular individual should necessarily own property himself , but that ‘ property should be sufficiently dispersed so that the individual is not dependent on particular persons who alone can provide him with what he needs or who alone can employ him ’ . |
| 7 | The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much , but too little . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not that the Canadians have deserted the railways , ’ says Roy Jamieson , their policy officer , ‘ the railways have deserted Canada . ’ |
| 9 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 10 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 11 | It is not that the Bosox are chronically hapless in the manner of the Chicago Cubs or the Seattle Mariners . |
| 12 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 13 | It is not that the arbitrator 's word is an absolute reason which has to be obeyed come what may . |
| 14 | It is not that the law claims that one ought to obey the law come what may . |
| 15 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 16 | It is not that the cells die because they are sick or somehow abnormal — dying is part of their programmed development . |
| 17 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 18 | It is not that the questioners are unintelligent , but rather that they are uninformed — and , after all , as science writers information is our business . |
| 19 | The weakness here is not that the assumptions are incorrect but that they are incomplete . |
| 20 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 21 | The point then is not that the subjective impression is infallible but that without it no choice of ends can arise , very much as no choice of means can arise without highly fallible generalizations about causal connexions . |
| 22 | In the face of such obstacles , what is surprising is not that the movement for an alternative Government failed . |
| 23 | The reason why we do not notice surface tensions in solids is not that the surface tensions are weak but rather that solids are too rigid to be visibly distorted by them . |
| 24 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 25 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 26 | It is not that the interventions were no good . |
| 27 | The result is not that the user of the aid hears the phone conversation , but rather that there is a loud hum which drowns out everything else . |
| 28 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 29 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 30 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |