Example sentences of "not that [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted , however , that at best the results can establish only that managers have a reason for pursuing one or other goal , and not that they actually do pursue it . |
| 2 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 3 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 4 | ‘ Not that they ever had any great big designs on my future . |
| 5 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 6 | Not that they really needed it , as the chance of Triple Crown against England in a fortnight 's time duly materialised . |
| 7 | The situation is not that we always have confirmed hypotheses , and sometimes or often lack an enumeration of the elements of a causal circumstance . |
| 8 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 9 | Not that their slightly geekish demeanour really matters in the light of much of tonight 's set . |
| 10 | Not that their newly re-upholstered troubled-funk rhythms would n't make converts of you all on the spot , but it 's heartening to see so many so attached to , well , so little . |
| 11 | ‘ Not that anyone as beautiful as you could be ignored of course . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not that I either like or dislike it , ’ said Stella , ‘ I just do n't see what good it does . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 15 | Not that I normally carry |
| 16 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 17 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 18 | Not that I really wan na stop ! |
| 19 | Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them |
| 20 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 21 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 22 | Not that I ever knew much about bathwater . |
| 23 | Not that I ever took them myself , because auction rings are a bit rough and noisy — places for men , really — so a kind neighbour would attend to things for me , such as arranging transport and attending the sale . |
| 24 | Not that I ever believed her — not for a moment . |
| 25 | Not that I ever drank beer . |
| 26 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 27 | Night porter , Q is lifts to all floor , and S is swimming pool and I know there 's a swimming pool because not that I ever used it , but ma it , it was when I booked Francis . |
| 28 | Not that I ever have major bennies or anything |
| 29 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 30 | Not that it really mattered to him any more . |