Example sentences of "not that the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 2 | Not that the West is indeed civilised and politically sound . |
| 3 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 4 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 5 | His arguments , if they prove anything , prove not that the principle is wrong , but that , according to the applications he supposes to be made of it , it is misapplied . |
| 6 | In fact it 's not that the memory is lost , so much as the person ca n't get out the facts which are stored in the memory . |
| 7 | Not that the salary is all that large . |
| 8 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 9 | I want to make the volume of the space tangible , so that it is understood immediately , physically , by your body ; not that the sculpture is a body in relation to your body , but that the volume , through the placement of the two sculptural elements , becomes manifest in a way that allows you to experience it as a whole . |
| 10 | Not that the weather is any less prone to wetness in the Mournes than elsewhere , or that the slopes are any less steep . |
| 11 | This is not surprising , as the model implies that the full leisure effect in the second period is zero , not that the coefficient is zero . |