Example sentences of "[not/n't] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some know not that each Person in the Trinity is God ; nor that Christ is God and man ; nor that he took his human nature with him into heaven ; nor many the like necessary principles of our faith . |
| 2 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 3 | It is not that one part of Solidarity supports the free-market experiment and another does n't . |
| 4 | Not that one man had the courage to be evil . |
| 5 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 6 | This might seem inconsistent with the fact that women were living longer , were it not that longer life brought no immediate improvement in their prospects ; it remained a man 's world . |
| 7 | Not that any man would be interested in me with a handicap like Mum . |
| 8 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 9 | It is a fact that record results were produced last year , but not that this year will be even better . |
| 10 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 11 | Not that this defence is likely to have an easy afternoon . |
| 12 | Not that this war will bring a ‘ new world order ’ even in the Middle East . |
| 13 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 14 | Not that this match could be close or anything ; |
| 15 | Not that this production is in any way unbalanced . |
| 16 | Not that this miracle was the end of the tale . |
| 17 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 18 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 19 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |