Example sentences of "not that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it takes an age to construct a very convincing garden with strong Japanese elements . |
| 2 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 3 | Not that it mattered very much because he was living in my flat and was n't going to starve , but I said to him , there is only one way that you can make quick , ready money and that is going out in cabaret . |
| 4 | Not that it mattered , as I would probably not see either of them again , but the scene last night had been strange , and my curiosity was aroused . |
| 5 | Not that it mattered ( I told myself again ) one way or the other , but now that my brother 's arrival was postponed at least until Monday , it would be good to have something of the story checked . |
| 6 | Not that it mattered . |
| 7 | Not that it mattered because the woman whose dress she 'd soaked turned around and started shouting the place down . |
| 8 | Not that it mattered . |
| 9 | Not that it mattered , she thought ; the truth was that she did n't give a damn about herself . |
| 10 | Not that it mattered . |
| 11 | Not that it mattered . |
| 12 | Not that it mattered . |
| 13 | Not that it mattered . |
| 14 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 15 | Not that it seemed to make a lot of difference . |
| 16 | Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school . |
| 17 | Not that it does the quiverer much good . |
| 18 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 19 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 20 | Not that it bothers me . |
| 21 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 22 | Not that it helps . |
| 23 | Not that it worried him . |
| 24 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 25 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 26 | Not that it meant a thing to her . |
| 27 | Not that it had all its own way . |
| 28 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 29 | Not that it had been difficult , he thought disgustedly . |
| 30 | Not that it bothered him . |