Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's not that you need them . |
| 32 | It 's not that I want to play the most difficult things ; I really do n't . |
| 33 | It 's not that I do n't want to … |
| 34 | It 's not that we 've planned a compromise , it 's what has come naturally within the group . |
| 35 | It 's not that he 's 27 years old or an amateur boxer , but that he 's black . |
| 36 | Well now , it 's not that any of us are exactly against egalitarianism , democracy and ecological responsibility , any more than Americans are supposed to be ( or were , at least in pre-feminist and less health-conscious days ) against motherhood and apple pie . |
| 37 | It 's not that the PLP has anything against men as such . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's not that I 'm afraid of living in a strange place , Ruth . |
| 39 | ‘ Oh , it 's not that I think myself better , not a bit . |
| 40 | It 's not that I 've come on my own because it 's something that is seen as just my problem , because as I said , Tom does n't seem that interested either . |
| 41 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 42 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
| 43 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 44 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 45 | Myers continues : ‘ Hopefully , it 's not that we 're stupid , it 's that we 're naive and uninitiated . |
| 46 | It 's not that I 'm a prude . |
| 47 | ‘ It 's not that we think it 's wrong to have girl-friends , we just choose not to at the moment . |
| 48 | It 's not that you did n't want the ball . |
| 49 | It 's not that it 's anyone 's fault , Mr Holly , you must n't think that . |
| 50 | Fyfe : ‘ Yeah , but it 's not that we hate America . |
| 51 | It 's not that Novell has any moral or financial obligation to be the keeper of the Unix flame . |
| 52 | Hang on , it 's not that Arnie at all , it 's another big-muscled psychotic killing machine . |
| 53 | It 's not that anyone 's going to whip me if I do n't do it — but I know there 's going to be double the quantity tomorrow , so really I 'm just beating my own brow . |
| 54 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 55 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 56 | Like a computer , it 's not that you 're clever , it 's just that you can access old records with amazing speed . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 59 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 60 | It 's not that ‘ they 're saying , ‘ We 've got these things that do n't work well and we 'll dump them on unsuspecting countries . ’ ’ |