Example sentences of "is [adv] say [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 2 | That is not to say that a perfect democracy is in the end attainable , any more than is perfect freedom or perfect justice . |
| 3 | This is not to say that a single find is valueless . |
| 4 | But this is not to say that the great were the only people who mattered politically ; and they could not always rely on their followers . |
| 5 | Components 3 and 4 are much less important and are dominated by noise , though this is not to say that the small amount of information they contain is irrelevant . |
| 6 | This is not to say that the regulating authorities should intrude into the investigation process or seek to influence or to duplicate it . |
| 7 | That is not to say that the other less thoroughbred horses do not have their place in the eventing world ! |
| 8 | This is not to say that the other ten players do n't have to be good as well ( Witness Everton & Man Shitty ) , but I do feel a ‘ top drawer ’ keeper would make a tremendous difference to Leeds . |
| 9 | This is not to say that the general design of the accompaniment can not be conceived right from the start , as a fairly well-defined mental image . |
| 10 | That is not to say that the Labour party would not have signed last week 's communique — we would have . |
| 11 | Thus a 10-month-old baby who failed to respond to its name , or to betray signs of recognition towards its mother , twin sister , or even its rattle , might well give therapists cause for concern ; which is not to say that the normal baby , who does succeed in reacting appropriately , is thereby yet self -conscious . |
| 12 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 13 | But again , that is not to say that the Christian Socialists had necessarily got their priorities wrong , nor that the French emphasis was wholly misplaced . |
| 14 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 16 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |
| 17 | Which is not to say that the nuclear powers should simply bang away at will . |
| 18 | That is not to say that the trivial name was not without some information on , for example , its origin — formic acid from ants ( formica ) for instance . |
| 19 | This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo . |
| 20 | It is often said that no political recovery from the trauma of Soissons was possible . |
| 21 | It is often said that the quantitative increase in Trident firepower is to accommodate , or seek to pierce , the anti-ballistic missile defences that have been established in the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 23 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 24 | For older people he is implicitly saying that the usual pattern is to go into residential care ’ . |
| 25 | Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms . |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 28 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |