Example sentences of "it be 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 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |
| 5 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 8 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 9 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 10 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 12 | It is n't that you get any bigger to fit the world , the world gets smaller to fit you . |
| 13 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |
| 14 | ‘ So it is n't that she … objects to ? ’ |
| 15 | And it is n't that we do n't understand ; |
| 16 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 17 | It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ? |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't that the dress is awful , ’ she finally pronounced . |
| 19 | It is n't that anybody 's stood still : my lot are now heads of departments , globe-trotting business woman , national charity organisers … and have produced a lot of daughters — for Somerville ? |
| 20 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 21 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 22 | I know it 's nice to see it is n't that it 's |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 25 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 26 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |