Example sentences of "it [is] not [noun] 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 | and it 's not people that have eaten , not certainly not the restaurant , what should I say |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's not hunger that brought you , I know . |
| 6 | It 's not dirt that causes acne . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Accordingly , we agree with Morgan that ‘ it is not sentences that have topics , but speakers ’ ( Morgan , 1975 : 434 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not art that needs new roses , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ it is the way men see women . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It provides a check on the arithmetical accuracy of the double entry , but it is not proof that the transactions have been correctly recorded . |
| 13 | It is not countries that go to war , but men . |
| 14 | It is not weight that is lost , but self-esteem . |
| 15 | It is not ecstasy that marks prophecy , but meeting with God , so that God speaks through the prophet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not death that is frightening , but the knowledge of death ’ : she started from this . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |