Example sentences of "not [conj] [adj] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not till all de Queen horses |
| 4 | The weak link in the structure is the Inservice Panel , not because such a committee is unnecessary but because the panel lacked a clarity of purpose , clear terms of reference and appropriate leadership . |
| 5 | This curious truth about language is that it is always perfect : when a user of the language fails to express himself clearly it is because some existing linguistic resource is not known to him , not because such a resource does not exist . |
| 6 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 7 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |