Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But as researchers are beginning to realise , the way to learn the most about ourselves is probably to combine the two approaches .
2 James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it .
3 All can be upgraded using Intel 's clock-doubling OverDrive technology which is soon to offer an upgrade path to Pentium standard performance .
4 Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers .
5 Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea .
6 ( Which is n't to say there are n't other reasons . )
7 I 'm much less aggressive , which is n't to say I do n't have a strong ego … ’
8 and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues .
9 Which is n't to say that a particularly bad beer will be bought by any consumer , just because the brewer supported a cherished cause .
10 Which is n't to imply that flippancy is his stock-in-trade .
11 Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison .
12 OSF/1 MK , already available as a snapshot , was being shown last week at the Unix Expo show in New York by IBM , which is also to use the Mach microkernel in a future version of OS/2 ( UX No 402 ) .
13 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
14 Which is not to say that much fine work is not achieved .
15 It was a not uncommon combination in a certain breed of Englishman and Englishwoman — a breed perhaps now vanished , which is not to say , improved upon .
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 I have had a religious experience — which is not to say , of course , that I am claiming a religious explanation for it .
18 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 .
19 The key message is that kids cook quick — which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease .
20 Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay .
21 Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god .
22 Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle .
23 Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it .
24 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 .
25 Which is not to say that it was odious and conceited because it was a feminist .
26 Which is not to say that ethyl alcohol drops do not work — they could help a chemical-sensitive patient by stimulating the liver to produce more detoxification enzymes .
27 Which is not to say that old-fashioned , blue-chip brands do not continue to pull in the plaudits .
28 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 .
29 ( Which is not to say that women are illogical , rather that our notions of logic may be androcentric .
30 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 .
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