Example sentences of "it [was/were] not that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 3 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 4 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 5 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 6 | It was not that he was obviously going to be a good priest . |
| 7 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 8 | It was not that the animal was hungry . |
| 9 | It was not that the folk of London were more pious than those of San Gimignano — both evidently shared in their way in the popular religious revivals of this age ; nor that they were less gentrified . |
| 10 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 11 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 12 | It was not that she felt any differently about motherhood . |
| 13 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 14 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 15 | It was not that they were insensitive or evil men . |
| 16 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 17 | It was not that men held the power , but that men were the power . |
| 18 | It was not that he had been dilatory in his duty of interviewing all those sent to the camp who were in any way , minor or major , special . |
| 19 | It was not that he boasted — or not very much . |
| 20 | It was not that evangelicals or Quakers or even more rational Christians doubted their ultimate dependence on Providence . |
| 21 | It was not that Russia is poor — many countries in Asia , Africa and Latin America are poorer . |
| 22 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 23 | It was not that Buchanan doubted the accuracy of Kipling 's descriptions of army outrages : soldiers rampaging drunkenly in the streets , for example , fighting with the buckle-ends of their belts . |
| 24 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 25 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 26 | It was not that his plan of fighting from room to room was not working … on the contrary , it was working to perfection : every room they retired from was crammed with dead and dying sepoys . |
| 27 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 28 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 29 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 30 | It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America . |