Example sentences of "it [be] not [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Accordingly , we agree with Morgan that ‘ it is not sentences that have topics , but speakers ’ ( Morgan , 1975 : 434 ) . |
| 3 | It is not countries that go to war , but men . |
| 4 | Harper had used the excuse of horse-trading to explain his journey to Isabella , but she knew the real truth of his escapade , It was not horses that fetched Harper to Belgium , but Sharpe . |
| 5 | In doing this the subject will fail to detect that it was not trespasses that was presented , but the mispronunciation tresbasses . |