Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will need to telephone the ‘ various local offices ( local to the place where you are going to live , not where you are now ) and make sure that a telephone will be laid on , the gas meter will be read , the electricity meter will be read and that all the services will be connected and functioning when you arrive on the day . |
| 2 | You ca n't do that , not once you 're here . |
| 3 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 4 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that they 're not already , ’ she added to her previous remark . |
| 8 | It 's not that they 're not clean or anything . |
| 9 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 10 | Ludens 's own relations with Marcus might have been called , from Ludens 's point of view , promising , even satisfactory , were it not that they were also precarious . |
| 11 | I say , it 's not that they were n't good . |
| 12 | Conversely , the reason why readers of the lowbrow press had such strong preferences for television news was not that they were particularly dissatisified with their papers but that they were particularly enthusiastic about the quality of television . |
| 13 | Not that they were often seen , these days ; a fox might be quite happy to attack a solitary nome , but thirty well-armed , enthusiastic hunters were a different proposition and it would be a very stupid fox indeed that even showed an interest . |
| 14 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 15 | They had a common feeling : not that they were necessarily agreeing with one another , because often they were n't . |
| 16 | I was saying to Pauline the other day , there 's some people you grow old with , willy-nilly , without noticing it — not that we are n't all wearing pretty well . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not that we 're not all agreed . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not that we 're always this awkward , ’ the lady deputy editor told the waitress amidst the musical chairs , ‘ just that we usually are . ’ |
| 19 | It is not that I am not eligible , |
| 20 | Not that I am deliberately distorting or mis-speaking our findings , but because I have selected and imposed an order on the research which suits my theoretical and creative purposes and which therefore paints nature in the colours in which I wish to view it . |
| 21 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 22 | ‘ Not that I 'm particularly interested in junkies , you understand . ’ |
| 23 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 24 | It 's not that I 'm not fond of her , you know that , May , but I daresay her life must suit her . |
| 25 | ‘ Not that I 'm fair done yet , mind , but I 'd like to see the matter of the chieftainship of the clan settled soon . |
| 26 | ‘ Not that I 'm all that well up in musical matters . ’ |
| 27 | Not that I 'm any good you understand — no natural talent — but I make up for it with hard work . ’ ) |
| 28 | Not that I 'm any sort of expert but I had misspent much of a happy youth in the ‘ feeling lucky , punk ? ’ school of cinema and I could tell Clint Eastwood 's Magnum from , say , The Magnificent Seven's Colt .45s , blindfolded . |
| 29 | I said not that I 'm only saying like , I 'm only saying , passing on what he said I , not that you fucking crease me ! |
| 30 | He has even got in the habit of joining in , stumbling after me ( not that I 'm very dazzling ) like a giraffe . |