Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] say [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society .
2 This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments .
3 Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY .
4 This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method .
5 This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved .
6 This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability .
7 This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects .
8 That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain .
9 This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are .
10 But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities .
11 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 .
12 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective .
16 This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse .
17 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 .
18 This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership .
19 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 .
20 This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control .
21 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 .
22 This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic .
23 This is not to say that all conflict is constructive .
24 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 .
25 This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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