Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that Judas is actually betraying Jesus . |
| 2 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is not that women are no good at chemistry . |
| 5 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 6 | It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is not that Ukraine 's rulers are devoted to nuclear status . |
| 11 | It is not that Jesus himself was God and man in the special and quite unique sense that Christian dogma had so long maintained . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not that God is testing us to see whether we believe or not . |
| 17 | It is not that children of high intelligence are somehow debarred from having a rich and satisfying school life . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | It is not that cats do not enjoy all the aforementioned nocturnal pleasures , it is that nightlife is too dangerous for them . |
| 20 | It is not that librarians had no practice in the classification and cataloguing of non-book materials . |
| 21 | It is not that librarians did not know , nor that they did not care . |
| 22 | It is not that people should be righteous in the expectation of some reward but rather they should behave righteously because of an inherent desire to do so . |
| 23 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 29 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 30 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |