Example sentences of "not [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 2 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 3 | Not that the working man 's point of view has been generally well heard . |
| 4 | First , it is important that centres put the correct start and finish dates on the Form NC5 so that is a subject assessor visits a week before the declared finish date , he will find that students are close to finishing the module — and not that the declared date was fairly fictitious and related to a timetabling convenience . |
| 5 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 6 | Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground . |
| 7 | The point then is not that the subjective impression is infallible but that without it no choice of ends can arise , very much as no choice of means can arise without highly fallible generalizations about causal connexions . |
| 8 | ‘ A Yank in the SS , not that the poor sod had much choice from what the record says . |
| 9 | Not that the poor chap 's likely to get much sleep tonight . ’ |
| 10 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 11 | Not that the other parties are n't full of the sweetest intentions — Mr Major 's determination to preserve the right of women to earn £2 an hour can not be doubted , nor can the sincerity of Mr Ashdown 's belief that women 's concerns should permeate every government department . |
| 12 | Not that the new development was entirely bad , for it certainly riveted the attention of the pirates and Famlio . |
| 13 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 14 | Not that the new fund would come cheaply . |
| 15 | Not that the binary system was a creation of the government for , as the then Secretary of State for Education , Anthony Crosland , observed in a speech in 1967 , ‘ I did not invent the plural or binary system which we inherited … . |
| 16 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 17 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 18 | Not that the Roman aristocracy did n't look after the people who worked for them — though people nowadays do n't like it when you say so — servants did n't sleep the way they did in Tsarist Russia or at Versailles before the revolution , but it still did n't seem good enough to Anna — I told you she was American ? — so Mena always had a nice room of her own ; later on too , at Brown 's Hotel . |
| 19 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 20 | After a full examination of the problem , the Layfield Committee recommended , not that the local rate should be abolished , but that rates should be supplemented by a local income tax . |
| 21 | Not that the gay Oz had been his idea , or even that he had provided much input , apart from advice on the telephone . |
| 22 | Not that The Very Model of a Man is particularly romantic . |
| 23 | They needed a strengthened carriageway for their armoured personnel carriers and lighting to make sabotage difficult , not that the demoralised citizens had the nerve to inflict mass reprisals upon themselves . |
| 24 | However , this only shows that there is some natural classification ( which would not be the case if traits were allotted to objects randomly ) , but not that the natural classification is hierarchical . |
| 25 | Not that the anonymous author of the Poema ever criticizes his hero — the whole work shines with an almost feverish air of hero-worship . |
| 26 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 27 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 28 | In the opening of a door it matters not if the strong hand of a weight lifter turns the knob or the delicate hand of a lady , the effect is the same . |
| 29 | ‘ Not if the same man carried out both attacks . ’ |
| 30 | This may seem to have moved a.long way away from the Creation , but not if the full significances of the Mayan story are to be enjoyed . |