Example sentences of "was not [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , the reason why readers of the lowbrow press had such strong preferences for television news was not that they were particularly dissatisified with their papers but that they were particularly enthusiastic about the quality of television . |
| 2 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 3 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 4 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 5 | It was not that they were insensitive or evil men . |
| 6 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 7 | It was not that they did n't know about the brain . |
| 8 | Their main concern was not that they should receive the extra money but that the man 's desire to give up smoking would be met . |
| 9 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 10 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 11 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 12 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 13 | It was not that his plan of fighting from room to room was not working … on the contrary , it was working to perfection : every room they retired from was crammed with dead and dying sepoys . |
| 14 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 15 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 16 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 17 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 18 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 19 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 20 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 21 | The problem with capitalism was not that it would fall , but that it would continue its remarkable success in raising real output and real consumption per capita , which in turn would have the effects of undermining those very social institutions on which its success depended , and creating a civilisation hostile to its continued existence . |
| 22 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 23 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 24 | It was not that she felt any differently about motherhood . |
| 25 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 26 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 27 | It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was signing . |
| 28 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 29 | It was not that she felt a need for approval , but it was disheartening that these people should show so little comprehension of the sacrifice she had made in wedding her life to theirs . |
| 30 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |