Example sentences of "was [not/n't] that " 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 answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 4 | Mr John Lamidey , an officer of the Data Protection Registrar , concluded after visiting the league 's London office that the data on computer was not that used for vetting , which ‘ appears to be held on paper ’ . |
| 5 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 6 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 7 | The problem was not that people had not done their jobs : they had . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 10 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 11 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was not that he was obviously going to be a good priest . |
| 14 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 15 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 18 | It was not that the animal was hungry . |
| 19 | It was not that the folk of London were more pious than those of San Gimignano — both evidently shared in their way in the popular religious revivals of this age ; nor that they were less gentrified . |
| 20 | Like so many historical labels , the word ‘ crusade ’ was not that favoured by contemporaries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 23 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 28 | It was not that they were insensitive or evil men . |
| 29 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 30 | It was not that men held the power , but that men were the power . |