Example sentences of "be [not/n't] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 2 | We 're , we 're , I mean we 're not we 're not that bothered really . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 4 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 5 | I figure that I 'm not going to be offered any more roles as the 41-year-old middleaged neurotic entering a crisis , 'cos I 'm not that any more and I do n't want to play that any more . |
| 6 | I 'm not that brokenhearted and I 'm , no I 'm annoyed . |
| 7 | for experiments with human subjects when X is a verbal label for stimulus A , the important feature could well be not that X is very much more salient than A but that the mechanisms of human memory are especially adept at maintaining verbal information . |
| 8 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 9 | But then again , there are n't that many words rhyming with ‘ Colin ’ are there ? |
| 10 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There are n't that many madmen about , ’ he said . |
| 12 | After all there are n't that many places that can do the sort of development work needed . |
| 13 | The sad fact is , there are n't that many fast shoot-'em up or platform games — like Super Mario — available for the PC . |
| 14 | They just are n't that damned perfect , ’ I said . |
| 15 | ‘ There are n't that many words to learn but they are are important ones , ’ said director Gabriel by way of encouragement . |
| 16 | I was told the rules , there were not that many and most were sensible . |
| 17 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 20 | I was involved in writing the first two drafts of the film , but by the sixth draft there were n't that many of my ideas left . |
| 21 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 22 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 23 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 24 | Bags that were n't that have come over there and need a recount Kerry ! |
| 25 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 26 | I 'm eating my penguin but , were n't that mine , that blue one ? |
| 27 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ’ — wrote their Gifford of Keats ' Endymion . |
| 29 | To most Anglicans now , though , the main thing about the papacy is not that it is evil — that seems an absurd accusation — but that it is frequently silly and wrong . |
| 30 | This it is , but the miracle is not that Patricia Routledge can make the old weep with ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ , but that she can still move the young with it . |