Example sentences of "be n't [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 2 | Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea . |
| 3 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 4 | ( This is n't to say that twisting an ankle always means that you are immobilising yourself . |
| 5 | ‘ That is n't to say that he does n't have qualities of kingship . |
| 6 | However , that is n't to say that male writers have it easy . |
| 7 | This is n't to say that Drafix CAD is an AutoCAD clone because it is n't . |
| 8 | But that is n't to say that doing research is like breathing — or speak prose — you do it all the time without realising . |
| 9 | But that is n't to say that doing research is like breathing — you do it all the time without realising . |
| 10 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 11 | This is n't to say that you ought not to give such personal undertakings ; on the contrary , unless you have reason to distrust your client , you should be prepared to take this very small risk to facilitate completion . |
| 12 | Which is n't to say that a particularly bad beer will be bought by any consumer , just because the brewer supported a cherished cause . |
| 13 | Now if a parent can have introduced the child via nursery school to that amount of other children , then I think there should be very little trauma , but that is n't to say that as the child gets older they do n't have to do things . |
| 14 | Now if a parent can have introduced the child via nursery school to that amount of other children , then I think there should be very little trauma , but that is n't to say that as the child gets older they do n't have to do things . |
| 15 | I think the fact that erm only twelve per cent of perceived sexual harassment cases come from tutors is n't to make that a minor problem , because the impact that sexual harassment , coming from tutors , institutional actors as it were , can have on students is phenomenal and you know one ca n't get too tied up in terms of the amount or the quantity of sexual harassment , I think one has to consider the quality of sexual harassment as well if one can put it that way , and it 's by no means a minor problem . |
| 16 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 17 | Lynsey was n't to know that , and Courtney 's boast added to his aura of respectability . |
| 18 | ‘ The poor doctor was n't to know that the great piece of bone sticking out was supplied by the local butcher . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose I should have noticed that the sand was all trampled but I was n't to know that the sandpit was the personal stamping ground of a large bull reindeer . |
| 20 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 21 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |