Example sentences of "[not/n't] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section will consider not what the critics write in reviews of exhibitions , but the criticism which is contained within the exhibition catalogues ; not the commentary from the box , but the programme of events . |
| 2 | Outcomes are uncertain , games of chance can be rigged — but this is not what we are conscious of in reading about Ursula . |
| 3 | But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with . |
| 4 | It is what I am , not what I do , that you must worship in me . |
| 5 | But is that not what he wanted ? he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) . |
| 6 | But is that not what the mind is ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , madam , ’ he said at last , ‘ I am granting that his conducting of himself is not what might be expected . |
| 8 | That One Great Truth : ‘ All is not what it seems . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A he — but it 's not what you 're thinking . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not what you 're thinking , Kathleen , I have n't done anything wrong — I promise you . |
| 11 | Francis who stopped talking only sometimes , and Marina the theatre director who listened and had everyone else listening , a perfect example of it 's not what you say , it 's the way you say it . |
| 12 | ‘ Painting is not what matters , but the effect it produces . ’ |
| 13 | Susan said , loudly enough for her words to be clearly audible , ‘ That is not what I said President . |
| 14 | I think the argument is that if we call the nature of the experience ‘ R ’ , and if we concede the materialist claim that R is a brain state , then in knowing the brain state the blind scientist knows R , though not what R is like . |
| 15 | So when S knows that p , it is his knowing that is his disposition , not what he knows . |
| 16 | The top is not what I wanted . |
| 17 | How moving are his gestures when , once again himself , he muses : ‘ Methought I was , I know not what methought . ’ |
| 18 | Beliefs are not what you think about but what you think with … |
| 19 | The latter is a desirable by-product , but it is not what the game should be about . |
| 20 | One hopes that is not what Crane had in mind when he credited Williams 's poems with ‘ charm ’ . |
| 21 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 22 | That was not what apartheid 's engineers had in mind . |
| 23 | ON FARM after farm around us the potato harvest is coming in — but the lifting of spuds is not what it used to be . |
| 24 | A key issue which must be addressed in this debate is not what most favours the sons and daughters of those families already committed to higher education , important though this is , but rather which funding system will most likely encourage first-generation entrants to higher education from social groups not hitherto persuaded to participate , because it is only from these groups that the necessary growth of an education and trained population can actually come . |
| 25 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
| 26 | Mrs Healey : ‘ But that is not what it is . |
| 27 | Like , most of the rapes we get at Easton , they 're not what I 'd call rape at all . |
| 28 | I suppose a lot of people think that 's not what they joined the police for . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that 's not what the McCartneys want . ’ |
| 30 | On the other hand , this was partly the result of huge unemployment depressing demand and consumer pressure , while the sharp fall of sterling against both the dollar and the deutschmark was also not what was intended . |