Example sentences of "[is] not that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 2 | As explained above , the proposal of the FRED is not that such expenses be treated as an asset , but rather that they be taken into account in measuring a liability . |
| 3 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 4 | The objection is not that such matters are raised but to the poisonous or venomous manner in which it is done . |
| 5 | It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive by way of direct testing . |
| 6 | It is not that that he needs , but forgiveness . |
| 7 | The other is that latent inhibition does indeed result from a loss of stimulus associability but that the mechanism responsible for this loss is not that that underlies habituation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The real grist of Watchdog 's story is not that all fishtanks are dangerous but that there are tanks on the market made from glass that is far too thin . |
| 10 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 11 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 12 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 13 | His worry is not that these errors undermine any of their actual results : ‘ that the principles laid down by mathematicians are true , and their way of deduction from those principles clear and incontestable , we do not deny . ’ |
| 14 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 15 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 16 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 17 | It is not that these issues are being dismissed in terms of their general abstract importance as a way of getting to grips with capitalism as a system . |
| 18 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 19 | It is not that these things are in themselves opposed to religion , but the possessiveness and distractedness which they tend to promote are . |
| 20 | The dominant characteristic of political decision-making when compared with market mechanisms is not that those who benefit from public expenditure are those who make the most noise politically . |
| 21 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The point is not that some have been forgiven a greater number of sins than others or that some are ‘ worse sinners ’ than others but that some see their need of forgiveness and others do not . |
| 25 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 26 | One or two shapes moved through the darkness but most people — There 's not that many , Chesarynth realized . |
| 27 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 28 | It 's not that that your Margaret ai n't got time to stop there and dry it for her , you know what I mean . |
| 29 | Well now , it 's not that any of us are exactly against egalitarianism , democracy and ecological responsibility , any more than Americans are supposed to be ( or were , at least in pre-feminist and less health-conscious days ) against motherhood and apple pie . |
| 30 | I mean it 's painful , I mean it 's not that this |