Example sentences of "not [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that disintegration has entirely taken hold . |
| 2 | We should not , however , think that these years were those of some frustrated novice-monk ( not that Judaism has such in any case ! ) of solitary and sober reading from dawn till nightfall . |
| 3 | ‘ Let not that thought keep you from your well-earned sleep , ’ she advised . |
| 4 | His affections do not that way tend , Or what he spake , though it lacked form a little , Was not like madness . |
| 5 | One such difference is that whereas thermometer readings are caused by the temperatures they signify ( that 's what correlates them ) , with bees and honey it 's the other way round : what correlates them is the fact , not that honey makes bees , but that bees make honey — the sign causes what it signifies . |
| 6 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 7 | It had never been known for them to stay less than three hours — not that Mum minded . |
| 8 | However , recall of the preceding clause ( clause 2 ) varied depending on whether or not that clause formed part of the same sentence as the most recent clause . |
| 9 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 10 | Not that money seemed to be a problem . |
| 11 | ‘ Not that boy Peters again ! ’ |
| 12 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 13 | Not that Serafin seems to realize . |
| 14 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 15 | And had not that song passed like a plague virus to every one of his fellow men in succeeding generations ? |
| 16 | Was it really a fact that a significant section of the public really did not know — not that Champagne came from a Province in France historically called Champagne — but from France at all ? |
| 17 | Not that time made any difference when there was no money . |
| 18 | Most commonly , this might relate to a right of way across the neighbouring property , and details as to whether or not that right has been interrupted or whether charges have been made for its use will be required . |
| 19 | Is not that situation made even worse by the massive Government cuts in renovation grants for elderly people ? |
| 20 | Not that VAT represents the only variation in methods of taxation , as Mr Newsome explains : ‘ In addition to VAT , there is withholding tax for monies paid to professionals or agents , sales tax , investment tax , and , if looking beyond Europe , both sales tax and VAT in Canada . |
| 21 | Mr. Marshall Does not that figure underline the Government 's commitment to the coal mining industry ? |
| 22 | The central problem is not that power has shifted from national governments and Parliament to Europe , but that it has shifted towards the Commission and the Council of Ministers . |
| 23 | Well , there is a generosity in calf-love that gives it a grace : not that mine had any grace . |
| 24 | Should not that proviso apply to anybody serving on any committee ? |
| 25 | Not that Roman did anyway , she reflected gloomily . |
| 26 | Not that summer did anything for Vetch Street ; dust motes hung in the warm air and the sunlight was pitiless , starkly revealing the cracks in the broken pavement , the decaying brickwork of the small terrace houses , and the larger tenements which stood among them , and the rottenness of the wood in the unpainted doors and window-frames . |
| 27 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
| 28 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
| 29 | What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either . |
| 30 | For normal political life to be maintained in Northern Ireland , is it not critical to defeat terrorism , and must not that defeat come before political changes or constitutional arrangements ? |