Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [not/n't] be that " in BNC.

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1 It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there .
2 It was not unlike the feeling she experienced when men looked at her and wanted her though she knew it could not be that for there was nothing sexual between her and Gary and never would be .
3 She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched .
4 Of course it could n't be that Nick had been relieved .
5 It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist .
6 It ca n't be that you have no principles .
7 so it would n't be that they interruptions listening necessarily it would just be that would n't expect to have to .
8 In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived .
9 Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract .
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