Example sentences of "it [be] not [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not sex that 's the problem , it 's what you demonstrate during sex ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's not hunger that brought you , I know . |
| 5 | It 's not dirt that causes acne . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not art that needs new roses , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ it is the way men see women . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It provides a check on the arithmetical accuracy of the double entry , but it is not proof that the transactions have been correctly recorded . |
| 10 | It is not weight that is lost , but self-esteem . |
| 11 | It is not ecstasy that marks prophecy , but meeting with God , so that God speaks through the prophet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is not death that is frightening , but the knowledge of death ’ : she started from this . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 16 | This time , however , it was not indecision that held him , but relief — relief at not having to play a role any more . |
| 17 | It was not life that connected them so firmly , but death . |
| 18 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |
| 19 | It was not money that the joint bodies did not require or need . |
| 20 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 21 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 22 | She was circling the room with an almost predatory air , examining each painting , each piece of furniture , and it was not appreciation that was etched on her face . |
| 23 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 24 | It was not compunction that restrained him , but an inherent sense of economy that objected to seeing time and effort and pain squandered uselessly . |
| 25 | But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself . |