Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] say [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 2 | Closing the perceived gap between the UK and the US and Japan , which are believed to be three years ahead , is another aim — though that is not to say that the UK is trailing in all areas . |
| 3 | Once again , however , that is not to say that the public 's post-appeal awareness of the essential contents of the P.C.A. documents must be regarded as wholly immaterial to the balancing exercise this court is now required to perform and to that too we shall return . |
| 4 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the procedure employed in studies of discriminative learning will be quite without effect . |
| 6 | This is not to say that the share of overseas assets reached a peak in 1989 Q4 ; it simply implies that the conditions for investment are relatively free in that any remaining controls can be thought of as prudential rather than prohibitive . |
| 7 | ‘ The role of SSSI is not to say that the rest of the countryside does n't matter , but show up areas which should be preserved at all costs . ’ |
| 8 | This is not to say that the school made no advances in this area . |
| 9 | This is , undoubtedly , an important precursor of rational service-level planning , although it is not to say that the service infrastructure will necessarily develop from individual service plans . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the service role which has been adopted resolves tension between team members or their management . |
| 11 | [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ] |
| 12 | However , there are important cases , particularly Senegal and Tanzania , where the tendency towards a national identity has been more important than localism , which is not to say that the conflict has not existed . |
| 13 | That is not to say that the element of voluntariness will cease to provide the distinguishing mark of contractual obligations . |
| 14 | This is not to say that the standard of reportage is not high — but quality varies as does layout and printing . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the range of powers thus exercised need be comprehensive . |
| 16 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the child or young person is always right ; it is , perhaps , to say that he or she is seldom completely wrong . |
| 18 | That is not to say that the Minister has not left questions unanswered , not least the one just put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 19 | This is not to say that the position is wrong but only that it is arguable , or in other words , open to conceptual evaluation . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the mornings and evenings were devoid of expresses , or indeed interest . |
| 21 | This is not to say that the stockmarket must crack , even if bond prices go on falling . |
| 22 | ‘ That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’ |
| 23 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 25 | That is not to say that the quality of information upon which decisions were made and discretion exercised was always adequate . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the USSR has not sought political dividends from economic ties . |
| 27 | All this is not to say that the clergy lacked grievances generally against the king , but that they were neither of the kind to excite lay sympathy nor even sufficiently widespread or fundamental to unite the clergy themselves . |
| 28 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 29 | This is not to say that the Harter Act provided an adequate measure of compensation or a sound claims procedure against carriers , for it did not . |
| 30 | That is not to say that the novels are unstructured , of course . |