Example sentences of "be not that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 32 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 33 | It is not that Pan Am minded a rival going under ; indeed , Pan Am may now be able to raise ticket prices on east-coast routes where Eastern had offered big discounts . |
| 34 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 35 | His worry is not that these errors undermine any of their actual results : ‘ that the principles laid down by mathematicians are true , and their way of deduction from those principles clear and incontestable , we do not deny . ’ |
| 36 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 37 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 38 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 39 | The issue is not that she might faint or be incapable of carrying through her role of blessing bread and wine and distributing it , then wiping out the sacred vessels , for these are not exactly arduous tasks ! |
| 40 | It is not that I am heartless . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It is not that people should be righteous in the expectation of some reward but rather they should behave righteously because of an inherent desire to do so . |
| 43 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | It is not that it has a design stamped on it , since once again it is not difficult to find other examples of metalwork decorated in a similar way . |
| 46 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 47 | as if reading her thoughts , Mrs Browning then said , ‘ It is not that I am afraid of dying , you know . |
| 48 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 49 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 52 | When Sly Stallone ( wearing , these days , more eye-liner than Sophia Loren ) is up there , playing it for laughs on the set , the worst thing is not that you do n't laugh , but that you feel anxious for him . |
| 53 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 54 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 55 | It is not that the Bosox are chronically hapless in the manner of the Chicago Cubs or the Seattle Mariners . |
| 56 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 57 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 58 | It is not that women are no good at chemistry . |
| 59 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 60 | 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 . |