Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [not/n't] that [noun pl] " 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 women are no good at chemistry .
3 It is not that writers invaded universities .
4 It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ .
5 It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children .
9 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 .
10 It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life .
11 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 ’ .
12 It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them .
13 It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials .
14 It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
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