Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [not/n't] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that Judas is actually betraying Jesus . |
| 2 | It is not that Pan Am minded a rival going under ; indeed , Pan Am may now be able to raise ticket prices on east-coast routes where Eastern had offered big discounts . |
| 3 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 4 | It is not that Ukraine 's rulers are devoted to nuclear status . |
| 5 | It is not that Jesus himself was God and man in the special and quite unique sense that Christian dogma had so long maintained . |
| 6 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 7 | It is not that God is testing us to see whether we believe or not . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ’ — wrote their Gifford of Keats ' Endymion . |
| 9 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 10 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 11 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 12 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 13 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |