Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 3 | When Sly Stallone ( wearing , these days , more eye-liner than Sophia Loren ) is up there , playing it for laughs on the set , the worst thing is not that you do n't laugh , but that you feel anxious for him . |
| 4 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 5 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 6 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 9 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 10 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 12 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not that we do n't love each other , ’ explained Louise . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's not that we did n't get on together , it 's just we had nothing in common . |
| 17 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 18 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 19 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 20 | It 's not that you did n't want the ball . |
| 21 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 22 | It 's not that you have n't got , or a black skirt or something . |
| 23 | It 's not that I get reasonably excited it 'll be okay . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not that I do n't want to say anything but I just do n't know what to say , ’ John Ryan , the Welsh coach , sighed . |
| 25 | It 's not that I do n't try — I do . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not that I do n't care . |
| 27 | It 's not that I do n't want your company . |
| 28 | It 's not that I do n't want to … |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not that I do n't want to be with you , Julia . |
| 30 | Do n't get me wrong , Loretta , ’ he added , ‘ It 's not that I do n't like her . |