Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 2 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 3 | It may or may not be that decisions and the like are in fact standard effects . |
| 4 | It might be that the subject noun and verb phrase go together to form a constituent , so you have Florence teased Dougal or the structure might not be that it might just be three separate constituents with no firm structure forming a further constituent , so why that structure ? |
| 5 | It was not unlike the feeling she experienced when men looked at her and wanted her though she knew it could not be that for there was nothing sexual between her and Gary and never would be . |
| 6 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 7 | In such cases the code used in the quotation need not be that used by the original speaker : its force derives from the fact that it is different from the code of the part of the turn in which it is embedded . |
| 8 | But the ground of the complaint would not be that the giraffe 's right to self determination was being thwarted , as we would say of a human being in a cage , but the general distaste at the conviction that the animal must be suffering severe discomfort . |
| 9 | In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived . |
| 10 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |