Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] not true " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was mean to say you were hungry because it 's simply not true , you 're just greedy for biscuits . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's simply not true . |
| 3 | She insisted : ‘ It 's simply not true . ’ |
| 4 | It 's just not true . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's quite true he 's my boyfriend and our relationship is very special , ’ while he countered : ‘ It 's just not true that we 're going out together , or that she 's my girlfriend . ’ |
| 6 | It 's just not true , and I think people ought to be warned . ’ |
| 7 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 8 | However , I would take issue with her view that the U.K. has been ‘ failing ’ economically or militarily in the recent past compared to the U.S. Economically it 's certainly not true , some examples : |
| 9 | ( It is simply not true that all Spanish colonialists were brutal , arrogant exploiters of the indigenous peoples ; there was a great deal of theological questioning and guilt and struggle around this issue , as the lives of such men as Bartolomé de las Casas makes clear . ) |
| 10 | It is simply not true that the mind is , as traditional empiricists used to suppose , a tabula rasa or blank tablet on which experience writes . |
| 11 | It is simply not true that those needs correlate with high spending local authorities . |
| 12 | If we now look at the ego , as opposed to the id , then immediately we see that it is , it is emphatically not true to claim that Freud was a Hobbesian social thinker . |
| 13 | ‘ It nearly compartmentalises us , but it is just not true . ’ |
| 14 | It would be true at most of a certain sort of naturalistic cognitive theory , for it is certainly not true of Moore 's cognitivism . |
| 15 | It is certainly not true , though , that the rich have been ‘ soaked ’ to finance the welfare state . |
| 16 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 17 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |
| 18 | ‘ There is this bias with critics that if it is about vampires it has to be junk — well it is absolutely not true ’ |
| 19 | This really pisses her off : ‘ There is this bias that if it is about vampires it has to be junk — well it is absolutely not true . ’ |