Example sentences of "be [not/n't] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 2 | We 're , we 're , I mean we 're not we 're not that bothered really . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 4 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 5 | I 'm not that brokenhearted and I 'm , no I 'm annoyed . |
| 6 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 7 | Thus the interaction between these stimuli is just what would be expected from considerations of generalization decrement and is not that predicted by conditioned attention theory . |
| 8 | It is not that established records of Cortés explicitly deny these things . |
| 9 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
| 10 | Well he 's not that struck on them . |
| 11 | ( he 's not that used to seeing naked tits ) , |
| 12 | Mike 's not that bothered anyway cos he cos I told him , mind you , he 's in Tenerife anyway , but his mum would have recorded it . |
| 13 | He starts the day with these vices — the quiet glass of red wine , the thoughtful cigar — and is n't that meant to be especially bad ? |
| 14 | Despite the super hero 's millions of fans , including Macaulay Culkin and General Norman Schwarzkopf , Mario is n't that impressed by his namesake . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not that broke me , ’ said Tutilo simply . |
| 16 | Like so many historical labels , the word ‘ crusade ’ was not that favoured by contemporaries . |
| 17 | Mr John Lamidey , an officer of the Data Protection Registrar , concluded after visiting the league 's London office that the data on computer was not that used for vetting , which ‘ appears to be held on paper ’ . |
| 18 | And so they had the stuff from there that was n't that had n't sold and |
| 19 | The dump was n't that crowded : the girl behind the bar just kept disappearing and failing to meet my eye . |
| 20 | er was n't that got that the |
| 21 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |