Example sentences of "not [that] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted , however , that at best the results can establish only that managers have a reason for pursuing one or other goal , and not that they actually do pursue it . |
| 2 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 3 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 4 | ‘ Not that they ever had any great big designs on my future . |
| 5 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 6 | Not that they really needed it , as the chance of Triple Crown against England in a fortnight 's time duly materialised . |