Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not exactly that he had pressed and she had invited . |
| 2 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |
| 3 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 4 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 5 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 6 | It was not just that he was unversed in Washington mores ; he was also a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense . |
| 7 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 8 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 9 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 10 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
| 11 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 12 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 13 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 14 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 16 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 17 | It was not only that his daughter in this prepossessing dining room seemed an unfamiliar creature , that his son was slightly uncomfortable , and that Thomas with his mercurial wit and ironic eyes felt like a friend recovered from a distant past . |
| 18 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 19 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 20 | Suddenly , it was not enough that he was touching her face . |
| 21 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 22 | ‘ Still , it was n't exactly that I was thinking of , ’ the Marshal said . |
| 23 | It was n't exactly that he wanted a present . |
| 24 | It was n't exactly that he was afraid ; he just did n't want to leave Frances . |
| 25 | It was n't simply that he was managing to smile with his mouth full — a difficult enough task at the best of times — it was that his smile expressed so many real , positive qualities that it must be designed to sell something . |
| 26 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
| 27 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
| 28 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 29 | It was n't just that their possessions , wood and porcelain , paint and linen , symbolised their joint life . |
| 30 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |