Example sentences of "[is] [adv] that we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start .
2 A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market .
3 that 's so that we do n't have to mess about with it , it , it
4 Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief .
5 ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’
6 It 's just that we went down there .
7 It 's just that we have n't got any resistance to the kind of germs they 're used to .
8 ‘ It 's just that we have n't found it yet . ’
9 But I 'll have to be very careful with it I I do expect , I would expect , that there would be inquiries for that kind of investment here erm it 's just that we have n't any major ones in the last couple of years of that type because the overall framework here is opposed to it .
10 It 's just that we do rather more sophisticated versions sometimes of very similar things which are done at school , but they might be done more precisely , simply in a rather more sophisticated way .
11 Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks .
12 It 's just that we do n't do it grammatically .
13 It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’
14 They might have been done , it 's just that we do n't know .
15 I do n't Albert do n't mind going for her cigs , but it 's just that we do n't get up early in the morning , you know , and if me mum 's ringing at eight o'clock in the morning , 'cos she got no cigs .
16 Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see
17 It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said .
18 ‘ It 's not that we do n't love each other , ’ explained Louise .
19 ‘ It 's not that we do n't believe you , Mr Blufton , it 's just that what you said was a bit of a surprise . ’
20 Er , a knowledge but erm , I would have to move that we can not accept this recommendation because , it 's not that we do n't er support the scheme within this paper , but it 's that we can not accept .
21 It 's not that we did n't get on together , it 's just we had nothing in common .
22 And it is n't that we do n't understand ;
23 It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ?
24 Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it .
25 We look forward to an hour 's drive to an appointment , because it 's then that we dust off American Pie or Band On The Run or Led Zeppelin II or London Calling and snap it into our car 's entertainment system .
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