Example sentences of "not [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he can mind that . |
| 2 | Not that the stories of Haile Selassie and the Shah are any great advertisement for the omnipotence of omnipotence . |
| 3 | Not that T. Behrens sets up as a psychologist . |
| 4 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 5 | Not that Doyle is n't taxing and maddening too . |
| 6 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 7 | Not that I disapprove rural Pleasures , as the Poets have painted them ; in their Landschape every Phillis has her Coridon , every murmuring Stream , and every flowry Mead gives fresh Alarms to Love . |
| 8 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 9 | Not that I managed . |
| 10 | Not that I can remember . |
| 11 | Not that the prohibition always succeeded . |
| 12 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 13 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 14 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 15 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I 'm dropping hints , darling ! ’ |
| 17 | Not that she gave a damn , but Lucy 's mind was obviously on him . |
| 18 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 19 | Not that we should over-emphasise Lorca 's surrealism . |
| 20 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 21 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 22 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 23 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 24 | Not that I have anything against ugliness . |
| 25 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 26 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 27 | Not that the working man 's point of view has been generally well heard . |
| 28 | BR spoke of replacing Ribblehead viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle with a new earth embankment to reduce maintenance , not that the stone structure was unsafe . |
| 29 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 30 | In Rex 's terms that means the malt and hops are organic and finings have not been used in the production ; not that finings affect the organic status of the brew , but Rex objects on vegetarian grounds . |