Example sentences of "it [was/were] not the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 2 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 3 | While Hewitt 's decision to use this term is based partly on his belief that there is no characteristic variety of English used solely by ethnic Caribbeans , it is also motivated by the lack of symbolic meaning attached to this variety : it was not the case that the London English of young blacks took on any specialized symbolic meaning of race or ethnicity . |
| 4 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |
| 5 | It was not the Faculty that offered to cooperate with the IoT over examinations , but the IoT which made the offer to the Faculty . |
| 6 | The Mexican Government wanted to pretend that it was not the army that guaranteed them the land . |
| 7 | DR WHO is dead , but it was not the Daleks that got him , it was his own sexism . |
| 8 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 9 | It was not the electorate that ‘ efficiently reduced [ the SNP ] to three seats ’ , but the vagaries of the electoral system . |
| 10 | It was not the adultery that offended him , but the stupidity of Lord John Rossendale risking a duel with Sharpe . |
| 11 | In North America 55 million years ago , it was not the mammals that ruled the roost , it seemed , but Diatryma gigantea . |
| 12 | ‘ It happened in the gym of this club right in the middle of my training , ’ he recalled , ‘ but it was not the training that brought on the attack although I had probably overdone things . |
| 13 | She was certain , however , that it was not the weather that was uppermost in his mind . |
| 14 | Donna traced the features with one index finger but it was not the face that caused her hand to shake . |
| 15 | Sarah knew that it was not the funeral that had put the sad look on her daughter-in-law 's face , but something quite different . |