Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation is not that we always have confirmed hypotheses , and sometimes or often lack an enumeration of the elements of a causal circumstance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 4 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 5 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 6 | It is not that she no longer feels for her children . |
| 7 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 8 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 9 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 10 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not that I either like or dislike it , ’ said Stella , ‘ I just do n't see what good it does . ’ |
| 12 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 13 | Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them |