Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] is not that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 2 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 3 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 4 | Our basic quarrel with them is not that they are unappealing ( for unquestionably , some of them are ) but that they are untrue . |
| 5 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |