Example sentences of "be not 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 I was told the rules , there were not that many and most were sensible .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much , but too little .
17 The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long .
18 It is not that policemen and women fail to achieve emotional detachment , even though one policeman once remarked that at postmortems he was appalled by the way pathologists treat the body simply as a lump of meat and fail to show respect ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 15 ) .
19 As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails .
20 At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity .
21 The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) .
22 It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different .
23 It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it .
24 It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes .
25 But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did .
26 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality .
27 ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening .
28 ‘ It is not that the Canadians have deserted the railways , ’ says Roy Jamieson , their policy officer , ‘ the railways have deserted Canada . ’
29 But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment .
30 What makes war likely is not that America and Iraq are not talking .
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