Example sentences of "problem [is] [not/n't] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : In this case the problem is not whether to include the office conversion in sales but how much to include . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 4 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 5 | When a person suffers from this lack of personal commitment , the problem is not that he can not genuinely believe something but that he will not genuinely believe anything . |
| 6 | The problem is not that people change but the ease and rapidity with which they change . |
| 7 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 8 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 9 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 10 | But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , the problem is n't that I do n't want to pay you your salary . |