Example sentences of "it be [not/n't] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
2 | It 's not it 's not on that level . |
3 | So it 's not in that lot so page down to the next one . |
4 | ‘ It 's not like that Lydia , ’ said Betty . |
5 | it 's not like that Paul 's pointing |
6 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
7 | But it is not on that subject that I address you . |
8 | But it is not on that judgment nor on that conviction that his place among the first of the heroes of Socialism or Co-operation depends . |
9 | If it was n't fer that bullet wound 'e got , Billy would be defendin' the championship by now . ’ |
10 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
11 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |