Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [not/n't] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The strength of scepticism is not that it can be argued consistently but that it can be used effectively against unwarranted dogmatism . |
| 3 | The other is that latent inhibition does indeed result from a loss of stimulus associability but that the mechanism responsible for this loss is not that that underlies habituation . |
| 4 | The result is not that the user of the aid hears the phone conversation , but rather that there is a loud hum which drowns out everything else . |
| 5 | My Dear Boy , my greatest fear is not that I shall never again touch you , but that when I return I shall no longer be able to hear your voice . |
| 6 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 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 real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 9 | This book is the true story of a decade in which physical and mental torture became so common that the wonder is not that so many were killed or driven to kill themselves but that so many more survived . |
| 10 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 11 | ‘ We are taking a positive approach and our attitude is not that there might be problems . ’ |
| 12 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 13 | The issue is not that she might faint or be incapable of carrying through her role of blessing bread and wine and distributing it , then wiping out the sacred vessels , for these are not exactly arduous tasks ! |
| 14 | We suggest that the issue is not that ‘ a considerable possibility of overtreatment ’ exists but that potentially damaging and ineffective treatment may be undertaken outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial . |
| 15 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 16 | The eleventh-century claim that Merewalh , king of the Magonsaete , was also a son of Penda can not be authenticated , even though in the 740s Aethelbald , king of the Mercians , appears to describe Mildrith ( later regarded as the daughter of Merewalh and Aebbe ( Eafe ) , a Kentish princess ) as his kinswoman ( CS 177 : S 91 ) ; and the likelihood is not that the Magonsaete were a Mercian creation but that Mercian control was being imposed upon their territory across the mid-seventh century . |
| 17 | Let me stress again that the shame is not that people have doubts , but that they are ashamed of them . |
| 18 | The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much , but too little . |
| 19 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 20 | The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another |
| 21 | The point is not that some have been forgiven a greater number of sins than others or that some are ‘ worse sinners ’ than others but that some see their need of forgiveness and others do not . |
| 22 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 23 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 24 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 25 | The point is not that everyone needs property to be free ; some people have little or no property but are not necessarily any the less free as a result . |
| 26 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 27 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 28 | His point is not that the other two legs are invulnerable , but that far too much of America 's political energy has gone into discussing ICBMs and far too little into submarines , cruise missiles , stealth bombers ( which could be used against targets other than the Soviet Union ) and especially command and control centres . |
| 29 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 30 | The ultimate justification of punishment is not that it is a deterrent , but that it is the emphatic denunciation by the community of a crime . |