Example sentences of "[adj] be [not/n't] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 2 | The proper reply to this is not that the truth of a view , strictly speaking , is independent of the motivations of those who hold it , although that is so . |
| 3 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 4 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 5 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 6 | What makes war likely is not that America and Iraq are not talking . |
| 7 | The answer to these is not that your boss will be mad if you do not deliver . |
| 8 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 9 | What is important is not that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the state apparatus , but that the relation between bourgeoisie and state is ‘ objective ’ . |
| 10 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 11 | In the face of such obstacles , what is surprising is not that the movement for an alternative Government failed . |