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

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1 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 .
2 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective .
6 This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse .
7 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 .
8 This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic .
9 This is not to say that all conflict is constructive .
10 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 .
11 This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 This is not to say that these termites have no perception of the earth 's magnetic field .
15 This is not to say that these features are not present within more clay-rich or carbonate mud-rich sediments .
16 That is not to say that some people are not naturally more perceptive , sympathetic and shrewd than others .
17 In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct .
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