Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] not that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 2 | So you can see what you go into the master bedroom there 's a man and a woman in bed , is n't it obvious in a second that it 's not that it 's Mr and Mrs ? |
| 3 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 4 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 5 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 6 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 7 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 8 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 9 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 10 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 11 | Fyfe : ‘ Yeah , but it 's not that we hate America . |
| 12 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 13 | But I , but it 's not that they 're mild , it 's just that I do n't like the flavour , the taste of them is just dreadful they just taste awful . |
| 14 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |