Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't need to be reminded that it was the previous administration who put it in the structure plan but I also want to remind those who were n't here that I was utterly opposed to that at the time . |
| 2 | People used the underground and of course there were the , there were the erm Morrison shelters were n't there that you you had indoors . |
| 3 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 4 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 5 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 6 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 7 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 8 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 9 | It was not just that he was unversed in Washington mores ; he was also a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense . |
| 10 | It was not just that the Old King possessed the greater resources — which he did -he was also able to overwhelm his enemies by sheer speed of movement . |
| 11 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 12 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 13 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 14 | On March 10 Boutros-Ghali had appealed to all UN member states for voluntary contributions to cover UNFICYP 's US$196,000,000 cost ; he had pointed out that it was not right that the force should be funded as at present by voluntary contributions from the eight personnel -contributing states [ see also p. 38873 ] . |
| 15 | She said it was not right that councillors should offer chief officials pay rises of 27 per cent while handing out 1.5 per cent to low-paid staff . |
| 16 | It was not simply that London Films had registered a loss of £330,000 for the fiscal year 1936 . |
| 17 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 18 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
| 19 | It was not simply that this or that particular topic might need revision or reassessment , but , they said , ‘ It is vital for us to turn our back on academic eclecticism … , and on the tendency to turn the study of literature and language from a systematic science back once more into a miscellany of episodic and anecdotal essays ’ ( 1977 : 49 ) . |
| 20 | But it was not often that events of the past ten years paraded their shadowy happenings for her attention ; very uncomfortable some of them were too — one unhappy little gamble of Dada 's emptied her purse quite considerably . |
| 21 | It was not merely that many people were dismayed by Labour 's tax plans : they also felt a wider and deeper sense of mistrust , that Labour 's numbers on revenue and spending simply did not add up . |
| 22 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 23 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 24 | The latest argument deployed in Whitehall yesterday was not only that sanctions hurt the worst-off sections of the South African community — the ones they are designed to help — but that financial measures against South Africa might induce the country to default on its international commitments . |
| 25 | It was not only that the industry needed propping up , but the whole film culture had to be rebuilt , and Forbes had clearly not grasped the scale of what needed to be done . |
| 26 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 27 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 28 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 29 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 30 | It was not only that the players were away but that while they were away they were losing badly . |