Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 2 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 3 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 4 | It is not that Egyptians have found a sudden enthusiasm for Islamic fundamentalism ; a majority probably resents the terrorism that has chopped tourism in half . |
| 5 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 6 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 7 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
| 8 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 9 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 10 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 11 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |