Example sentences of "[not/n't] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the great roles for a black actor ( not that black actors in these days are not eligible to play practically any character in Shakespeare , with the exception of Desdemona ! ) . |
| 2 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 3 | Not that buoyant optimism much better . |
| 4 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 5 | Not that terrible sense of showing off . |
| 6 | ‘ Jay , Jay , it 's not that . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , not that old bloody chestnut ! ’ said Jamie . |
| 8 | ‘ Not that one ! |
| 9 | Dr Jessie Scriver made a speech stating that the economies were affecting the health of the mothers , though not that of the children as yet . |
| 10 | We should not , however , think that these years were those of some frustrated novice-monk ( not that Judaism has such in any case ! ) of solitary and sober reading from dawn till nightfall . |
| 11 | Thus , we can perceive the sound emitted by a piccolo but not that from a dog whistle . |
| 12 | Not that Network SouthEast 's more everyday trains are short of patronage . |
| 13 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 14 | It mattered not that Kite was beaten by Suzuki and Strange by Ozaki for the Americans already had an unassailable 3 ½ points on the board . |
| 15 | ‘ Not that one again . |
| 16 | Whether or not that helps to fill church pews is totally irrelevant . |
| 17 | There are not that many good ones about . |
| 18 | To obtain power by embracing darkness , Kurtz deified himself in line with primitive belief ; ironically , Eliot 's speaker dresses in relics of forgotten ritual out of a sense of total impotence , wishing to avoid a horrid dusk : ‘ Not that final meeting/ In the twilight kingdom . ’ |
| 19 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
| 20 | ‘ Maggie may be slow but she 's not that slow , ’ he said impatiently . |
| 21 | ‘ They are not that soft , Daddy . ’ |
| 22 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |
| 23 | ‘ No , it is not that , they can see that women are more militant than the men , doing more work on the picket line . |
| 24 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 25 | But Afshan says the problem is not that , but one of how to keep one life style without rejecting the other , or , as Meena , the girl from Acton put it ‘ I never regard myself as English . |
| 26 | It was not that sport was unimportant . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that gnat 's piss , for a start . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not that . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's not that kind of fellow . ’ |
| 30 | When we started off we were in our puffballs , but we 're definitely not that dressy now . ’ |