Example sentences of "[be] not that [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is not that women are no good at chemistry . |
| 2 | It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible . |
| 3 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 4 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 5 | My message is not that teachers ought to quit complaining and make the best of a bad job . |
| 6 | It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children . |
| 7 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 8 | What is important is not that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the state apparatus , but that the relation between bourgeoisie and state is ‘ objective ’ . |
| 9 | Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality . |
| 10 | We all think it wrong to inflict pain gratuitously , but our reason for obeying this principle is not that others do . |
| 11 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 12 | It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ . |
| 13 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The point then is not that reforms will necessarily fail in their objective of furthering the public good ( though this is normally supposed ) , but that interference in company affairs for that purpose is morally impermissible . |
| 16 | It is not that men in management — MIM s as they are labelled by the pages of popular business handbooks — are unused to talk of a corporate future marked by chaos , turmoil , and ‘ reality turned upside down ’ . |
| 17 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
| 18 | It is not that policemen and women fail to achieve emotional detachment , even though one policeman once remarked that at postmortems he was appalled by the way pathologists treat the body simply as a lump of meat and fail to show respect ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 15 ) . |
| 19 | This , teachers and educational technologists will always happily agree , is the librarian 's professional job , and what surprises people is not that librarians classify and catalogue but that they sometimes believe they know something about the contents of their books and AV items , offer advice on quality and relevance , and have pronounced views on how they would like their libraries to be used . |
| 20 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 21 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
| 22 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 23 | It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life . |
| 24 | It is not that police statistics are misleading on recorded crime , but they need to be considered in the context of the BCS and the local crime surveys . |
| 25 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 26 | What is most damaging to Christianity is not that Christians doubt but that there seems to be so little open discussion and understanding of doubt . |
| 27 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 28 | ‘ No , it 's not that men are excluded from these new values but that they have to adapt ; learn to change , ’ says Roderick . |
| 29 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 30 | It was not that men held the power , but that men were the power . |