Example sentences of "be not [adv] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff . |
| 2 | It is not just that one supplements the Other : . |
| 3 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 4 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 5 | It is not simply that they have different views of the world , but that they each define what is the evidence in a different way . |
| 6 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 7 | But also , it is not exactly that they bring sexuality to politics ( it was always already there ) ; rather deviant desire brings with it a different kind of political knowledge , and hence inflects both desire and politics differently . |
| 8 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 9 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 10 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 11 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 12 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 14 | It is not enough that he believes them to have been stolen : Haughton v Smith [ 1975 ] AC 476 ( HL ) . |
| 15 | in the marriage relationship it 's not just that he says I have taken you , and all that you have now is mine , I take your debt and I discharge it fully , your debt of holiness to God , your debt of righteousness to God , he says I take it and I pay that price in full ! |
| 16 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 17 | It 's not just that he needs the money . ’ |
| 18 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 19 | Well it 's not just that it destroyed |
| 20 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 21 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 22 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 23 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 24 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 25 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 26 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 27 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 28 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 29 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 30 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |