Example sentences of "not that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the success of News on Sunday in financial terms was very high on the list of priorities . |
| 2 | Not that the freighter 's jumbled hold was pleasant , crowded with the noisy , dark shapes of the mining team who thought of her as cargo to sell . |
| 3 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 4 | It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day ! |
| 5 | The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much , but too little . |
| 6 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 7 | It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America . |
| 8 | BR spoke of replacing Ribblehead viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle with a new earth embankment to reduce maintenance , not that the stone structure was unsafe . |
| 9 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 10 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 11 | The reason why we do not notice surface tensions in solids is not that the surface tensions are weak but rather that solids are too rigid to be visibly distorted by them . |
| 12 | Not that the West is indeed civilised and politically sound . |
| 13 | It is not that the west has failed to make an attempt to do so , and I pay genuine tribute to the work done by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and by my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , who is to reply to this debate , and to the tireless efforts of Lord Carrington and , more recently , Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 15 | Not that the hair of the dog remedy actually works , it just makes you forget how bad you feel for a while . |
| 16 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 17 | The result is not that the user of the aid hears the phone conversation , but rather that there is a loud hum which drowns out everything else . |
| 18 | It is not that the law claims that one ought to obey the law come what may . |
| 19 | Not that the Regent himself was in any way offended by the new arrival 's immediacy and frank speaking . |
| 20 | It was not that the animal was hungry . |
| 21 | Not that the WRU should ever have delayed their decision anyway . |
| 22 | She remembered what he had said about steering clear of married women , and she decided that they probably were n't , not that the thought gave her any pleasure . |
| 23 | Where this is done it matters not that the pedestrians have n't put a foot on the crossing or that they have actually crossed and the offence can still be committed ( Gullen v Ford [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 24 and Connor v Paterson ( 1977 ) 121 Sol Jo 392 ) . |
| 24 | It was not that the folk of London were more pious than those of San Gimignano — both evidently shared in their way in the popular religious revivals of this age ; nor that they were less gentrified . |
| 25 | It is not that the expansion of the universe causes disorder to increase . |
| 26 | It was best balsa wood of course , not that the Indians could know , but I duly went down poleaxed and Matt started pretending it was an accident . |
| 27 | Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal . |
| 28 | Not that the Scholtzs liked each other any better . |
| 29 | Not that the look bothered Marx . |
| 30 | Not that the money will amount to much . |