Example sentences of "[det] is [adv] to deny " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that the Bolsheviks ' intentions for future political , social and national minority devolution were genuine , but at the close of the Civil War they governed a financially exhausted country . |
| 3 | This is not to deny the truth of orthodox Christian belief . |
| 4 | What he proposes is to change ‘ ideas into things ’ ; and to do this is not to deny the existence of a world of things . |
| 5 | This is not to deny that there were not some major setbacks . |
| 6 | ‘ This is not to deny in any way that informational processing leads to decisions that have ‘ downward ’ psychosomatic effects . |
| 7 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 8 | This is not to deny the possibility that an associative acquired-distinctiveness effect may also operate in other cases ) . |
| 9 | At the same time this is not to deny there are administrators and administrations which claim to act , even want to act , in a disinterested way . |
| 10 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 11 | This is not to deny , of course , that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality . |
| 12 | This is not to deny that random changes are not automatically beneficial , but the direction towards improvement comes from natural selection ; i.e. from genetic changes that were an aid to survival . |
| 13 | This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution . |
| 14 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 15 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 16 | This is not to deny the value of such courses : they provide , at the very least , a sense of professional community and there is no doubt that some of the inspiration they generate carries over into practice . |
| 17 | If this approach tends to proximate to idealism in seeing linguistic forms as closed , self-referential systems without any manifest acknowledgement that they are located in distinct socio-economic structures , this is not to deny its potential in interpreting political forms . |
| 18 | This is not to deny the immense amount of valuable warm support and practical help given to old people by social work assistants . |
| 19 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 20 | All this is not to deny the possible relevance of the results of comparative experience as an aid to practitioners and policy-makers who may hope to utilise ideas , approaches or techniques adopted in other countries . |
| 21 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 22 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 23 | This is not to deny the brilliance and seminal contribution of certain individuals . |
| 24 | This is not to deny , of course , that individuals are causal subjects ; they fill various social roles , engage in the work of production , and thereby bring about changes in the social world . |
| 25 | This is not to deny that individuals are able to think , that they have ideas , build theories , etc . |
| 26 | This is not to deny the reality of such self-interested behaviour as that discussed by Thomas and Mungham in this volume . |
| 27 | This is not to deny personal responsibility , but to recognise that in all social organisations individual responsibility is constrained by the social arrangements which obtain . |
| 28 | This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence . |
| 29 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 30 | However , this is not to deny that pornographic videos may well have a damaging effect . |