Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 32 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 33 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 34 | 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI . |
| 35 | Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere . |
| 36 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 37 | This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective . |
| 38 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 39 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 40 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 41 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 42 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 43 | While reading commercial bar codes and displaying the relevant information is not a very practical proposition for the home user , that is not to say that do-it-yourself bar codes are totally impractical . |
| 44 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 45 | This is not to say that all conflict is constructive . |
| 46 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 47 | This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified . |
| 48 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 49 | That is not to say that all linguists , or even the majority of them , have accepted the theory of transformational grammar that Chomsky put forward . |
| 50 | This is not to say that middle-class girls do n't get pregnant , they do , but they are more likely to be encouraged to use contraception , and also take the option of an abortion more than working-class girls . |
| 51 | This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women . |
| 52 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 53 | To say that a question should be answered fully is not to say that irrelevant matter should be introduced into the answer . |
| 54 | That is not to say that British citizens in the legal sense have no rights , only that they are not part of the express legal concept of citizenship . |
| 55 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 56 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 57 | That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’ |
| 58 | This is not to say that MARID-type metasomatism is a necessary precursor to all kimberlite genesis — the MARID suite is of restricted occurrence overall — but some form of metasomatism is an inevitable accompaniment . |
| 59 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 60 | This is not to say that these termites have no perception of the earth 's magnetic field . |