Example sentences of "not that [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a fact that DLC suffered a pay strike last year , but not that they are against trade unions . |
| 2 | It 's not that they 're in rehabilitation , it 's just like seeing that person is locked away in the prime of their lives revenge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 6 | Not that I 'm in any position to pass judgement . ’ |
| 7 | Not that I 'm against paid pews for those that can afford them , but in moderation . |
| 8 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 10 | It 's not that I 'm against them in their place , |
| 11 | Not that I 'm against them . |
| 12 | for a sheltered childhood ( not that it was for long , |
| 13 | For example , it is often the case that the essential characteristic of a " slave " is not that he is in a servile position or economically disadvantaged but that , not being a kinsman , he is denied the rights of a full human being . |
| 14 | Not that he was in any way merry — I 'd merely triggered off his own insomniac hysteria and his laughter quickly subsided into a sort of drained whimpering . |
| 15 | Not that he was in much danger of noticing . |
| 16 | Not that she was in quite so much awe of the Larks since Sir Felix had failed to marry Gemma . |
| 17 | Do n't that I was over impressed with Tammy Girl , were you ? |
| 18 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |