Example sentences of "be not [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that white children or adolescents are generally as good at speaking Creole as black children . |
| 2 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 3 | Obviously I am not saying that all policemen are racist but there seems to me to be enough evidence for a nationwide enquiry into such harassment to be held . |
| 4 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 5 | but erm , I , I thought it was both yours and Mr contention that through the doctoring of extensible authority and by , because of that doctoring your clients are not alleging that any contracts of insurance or re-insurance simply made on their behalf is unenforceable |
| 6 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 7 | It is not We 're not proposing that these sites should be allocated for development . |
| 8 | We 're not saying , as you well know from my representations , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now either in total or or in part , unless the Inspector feels that there is a shortage of housing land , that he needs to be looking for additional sites . |
| 9 | But I return to the point I make here , Mr , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now , unless the Inspector . |
| 10 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 11 | Now I 'm not saying that two wrongs make a right , and the fact that women have had to put up with this means than men just have to put up with it in their turn . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying that trendy clothes make a better person , possibly the reverse is true , but it 's the whole spectrum of youth culture . |
| 13 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |
| 14 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 15 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 16 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 28 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |