Example sentences of "not that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And go ye forth and fight with King Bucar : for be ye certain and doubt not that ye shall win this battle ; God hath granted me this . |
| 2 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 3 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 8 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
| 9 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not that they can afford to wait for long . |
| 13 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 14 | — Not that they 'd be bothered . |
| 15 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 16 | They had a common feeling : not that they were necessarily agreeing with one another , because often they were n't . |
| 17 | ‘ Not that they ever had any great big designs on my future . |
| 18 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 19 | Not that they were eager to discuss the season . |
| 20 | It is not that they are extreme , or personally off-putting . |
| 21 | Not that they would , in any sense , agree to act as spies ; anything they discovered about his private life , they would treat with total discretion , he was sure of that . |
| 22 | Ludens 's own relations with Marcus might have been called , from Ludens 's point of view , promising , even satisfactory , were it not that they were also precarious . |
| 23 | .. made its way below , a hole would burst in the ship ; not that they feared the ship taking fire , but they thought the light was the work of evil spirits ... ’ |
| 24 | Not that they had to mind . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 27 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 28 | Not that they 'd 'ave got much . |
| 29 | Not that they would condemn him . |
| 30 | Not that they had anything against the original character or film ; far from it . |