Example sentences of "[pers pn] be n't that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 3 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 4 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 5 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 6 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 7 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 8 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 9 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |
| 10 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 13 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 14 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 15 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 17 | It is n't that you get any bigger to fit the world , the world gets smaller to fit you . |
| 18 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |
| 19 | ‘ So it is n't that she … objects to ? ’ |
| 20 | And it is n't that we do n't understand ; |
| 21 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 22 | It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is n't that the dress is awful , ’ she finally pronounced . |
| 24 | It is n't that anybody 's stood still : my lot are now heads of departments , globe-trotting business woman , national charity organisers … and have produced a lot of daughters — for Somerville ? |
| 25 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 26 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 27 | I know it 's nice to see it is n't that it 's |
| 28 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 29 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 30 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |