Example sentences of "[be] not [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 2 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 3 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 4 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 5 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 6 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 7 | It 's not that I admire the look as such , |
| 8 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 9 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 10 | Well it 's a long way , no it is n't when you come the you go you can go from here up |
| 11 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 12 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 13 | It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance . |
| 14 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 15 | It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again . |
| 16 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 17 | It was not until she reached the age of specialization that she realized how well she had succeeded , although she had had her suspicions : but at the age of fifteen , at the moment of choice , the moment from which the Arts stretched away in one direction and the Sciences in another , never to meet again , she realized that Mrs Hill and Miss Haines had actually been fighting over her . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’ |
| 19 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 20 | It was n't until they reached the walls of Assisi that she spoke again . |
| 21 | And it was n't until I phoned the co-ordinators that he was able to tell me that , oh yes , yes , that was months ago he said |
| 22 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 23 | It was pitch black under the overhanging branches and it was n't until he reached the gate of Dobbs ' field that he was able , at last , to distinguish the shapes of the trees , and Dobbs and the wall by the churchyard . |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 25 | It was n't as he pretended the desire |