Example sentences of "it [was/were] [not/n't] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 2 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 3 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 4 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 6 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 7 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 8 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 9 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 10 | The calculations would seem a lunatic fantasy if it was n't that they were produced by an organization which then occupied the centre stage of British energy policy . |
| 11 | It was n't that the new treatment was particularly bad , it was just that the very idea of a re-mix fell directly against the grain of the code of ethics publicly laid down by The Smiths . |
| 12 | It was n't that the programmes were bad , but they did not actually choose to cover different topics from male current affairs teams , while the whole hypothesis had been that they would in fact cover different topics — that there were uncovered topics in social policy and the rest of it . |
| 13 | It was n't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence . |
| 14 | It was n't that Amy was dirty ; she was continually washing herself , her hair , her few clothes . |
| 15 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 16 | It was n't that I would n't try Terry 's material , because we did try it ; it 's just that none of us really liked it . |
| 17 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 18 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 19 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 20 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 21 | It was n't that she doubted that the Allies would win — of course they would . |
| 22 | It was n't that she was afraid of them , or aggressive , or unpleasant . |
| 23 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 24 | It was n't that Miss Hatherby was in a state of undress , had her hair in curlers or anything obviously embarrassing like that . |
| 25 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |
| 26 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
| 27 | In Barry and Helen 's case , it was n't that their problems were insoluble . |
| 28 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 29 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 30 | It was n't that these were definite ; I just wanted life to be different , to be somewhere else . |