Example sentences of "be [adv] to say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not to say I killed her . ’ |
| 2 | Cheerleaders , mostly in the form of software companies , will be there to say they have or will comply . |
| 3 | Whatever Marguerite had been about to say she did not continue and later changed the subject with firmness that told Jenna she would not bring it up again . |
| 4 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 5 | I thought you would g , oh I thought you were about to say I 've decided I 'm not coming . |
| 6 | This is not to say we never punish a horse : sometimes we must . |
| 7 | Which is not to say we wo n't accept sponsorship . ’ |
| 8 | That is not to say we have no satisfactory conception of the particular causal circumstance . |
| 9 | That is not to say we should adopt the hard sell or abandon our traditional value , but we must seriously examine how we can appeal to more desperate scattered membership . |
| 10 | This is not to say it was quiet , for Hobbes published controversial Objections to Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , and was involved in acrimonious arguments with leading mathematicians about his attempts to square the circle . |
| 11 | That is not to say it is n't perfectly able to compete with its own kind , often aggressively , and in fact at times rabbits inflict serious injury to one another . |
| 12 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |
| 13 | This is not to say it rules out action , but it fails to grasp the relation of action to capitalism . |
| 14 | I have authorised his scheme , but that is not to say it will ever come about . |
| 15 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
| 16 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 17 | That is not to say I consider I became , necessarily , a ‘ great ’ butler ; it is hardly for me , in any case , to make judgements of this sort . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , this is not to say I did not gain a fairly clear impression of what was taking place within the room . |
| 19 | ‘ That is not to say I am not looking around and it 's reassuring that there 's money available if necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ But that is not to say I am going to rush back there at the first opportunity . ’ |
| 21 | He also sees a rosy future for superstores : ‘ Superstores wo n't take the same percentage of the market as in the US , but that 's not to say they wo n't do well — they will . |
| 22 | That 's not to say they do n't want things they 're not currently getting . |
| 23 | ‘ They come and go a bit silently , of course , but that 's not to say they 're furtive . ’ |
| 24 | I mean that 's not to say they 're not still a threat but at the moment er Leicester are starting to boss the game again and that 's the important to them . |
| 25 | well the brochures became , were dated each year , the service charge , a date was put on the service charges each year , that 's not to say they were , th they automatically changed , it depends on how long the scheme had been open |
| 26 | That 's not to say they are things that are happening this month that , that I have n't planned for three months ago . |
| 27 | That 's not to say I did n't think about sex — I did — and in order to relieve my frustration I would read books , watch videos and practise solitary sex . |
| 28 | That 's not to say I 'm not terrified about the state of our rivers and trees — but I do n't think it 's the best way to care for our environment . |
| 29 | There was neither an immediate protestation nor confirmation from Charlie ; then he said , ‘ No ; I have never wanted anyone else ; but that 's not to say I 've never had needs , and they had to be met . |
| 30 | That 's not to say I have n't had needs , and they had to be met , she thought . |