Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did not know was that Vivien Eliot was in the audience . |
| 2 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
| 3 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 4 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 5 | What he did not mean is that women lack rationality ; they can and do deliberate . |
| 6 | What he could not foresee was that generals would renew their political role after 1814 , not as representatives of the old order , but as liberal paladins . |
| 7 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 8 | What Pravda did not say was that Mr Gerasimov failed to get elected by popular vote in the all-union congressional elections last March — just like Mr Lev Zaikov , the ousted Moscow party leader . |
| 9 | What Pravda did not say was that Mr Gerasimov failed to get elected by popular vote in the all-union congressional elections last March — just like Mr Lev Zaikov , the ousted Moscow party leader . |