Example sentences of "it [be] not [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it were n't Brian that sent it . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not sex that 's the problem , it 's what you demonstrate during sex ! ’ |
| 3 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 4 | and it 's not people that have eaten , not certainly not the restaurant , what should I say |
| 5 | No it 's not fact that normal go up the private estates , this is probably your first time on a council estate , the bloody hell it 's come from . |
| 6 | It 's not hunger that brought you , I know . |
| 7 | It 's not dirt that causes acne . |
| 8 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 9 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 10 | Accordingly , we agree with Morgan that ‘ it is not sentences that have topics , but speakers ’ ( Morgan , 1975 : 434 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not art that needs new roses , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ it is the way men see women . ’ |
| 12 | In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits . |
| 13 | It provides a check on the arithmetical accuracy of the double entry , but it is not proof that the transactions have been correctly recorded . |
| 14 | It is not countries that go to war , but men . |
| 15 | It is not weight that is lost , but self-esteem . |
| 16 | It is not ecstasy that marks prophecy , but meeting with God , so that God speaks through the prophet . |
| 17 | It is not religion that drives it , or theory ; and the rejection of Marxism now looks , in retrospect , like an inevitable part of its natural growth . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not death that is frightening , but the knowledge of death ’ : she started from this . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 20 | ‘ It is n't charity that I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 21 | Running off with Jonathan 's pen might sound like a good joke but , as you probably noticed , it is n't Gowie that the others come and help , but Jonathan . |
| 22 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 23 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 24 | But it was n't unprofessionalism that caused Finchie to behave so uncharacteristically . |
| 25 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 26 | It was n't Dave that took all those freebies , it was the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 27 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 28 | But it was n't duty that took her from her bed creeping down the stairs . |
| 29 | It was n't Reyes that had Nelson worried , but Czech Martin Vrabel . |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |