Example sentences of "is not [adj] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be . |
| 2 | As you probably know , even the cleanest looking carpet is not all that it appears . |
| 3 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 4 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 5 | Given the adversarial procedures of the Court it is not surprising that it defined a dispute in bilateral terms . |
| 6 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |