Example sentences of "[is] [adv] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men .
32 This is not to say that Marx was unaware of the need for such a proportional distribution of labour , but this was not directly discussed in his own exposition of the schemas of reproduction .
33 Oddly enough this is not to say that kings always had easy access to wealth : much to the disgust of monks of St Denis , Clovis II ( 634 – 57 ) removed silver from the apse of their church , to provide alms during a famine .
34 This is not to say that demand is necessarily elastic with respect to the rate of interest .
35 This is not to say that methods of biochemical adjustment are sufficient in themselves , or that a psychiatrist , however biochemically oriented , can neglect the pastoral aspects of caring for his patients .
36 This is not to say that re-investigation of this kind guarantees verification .
37 This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did .
38 This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees .
39 This is not to say that Richard was irreligious .
40 This is not to say that particulars can not under any circumstances be contextually individuated via " impersonal " descriptions .
41 This is not to say that food reinforcers are quite immune from the operation of a mechanism like that supposed in Solomon and Corbit 's opponent-process theory .
42 This is not to say that force was thereafter eschewed It was used in Isfahan , in the north , and in the west — but less in Teheran .
43 Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle .
44 This is not to say that Castro 's actions as described above can be explained solely in terms of Cuba 's relations with Moscow .
45 Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind .
46 That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all .
47 This is not to say that staff do not seek to ensure that an apparently open exchange concludes with the ‘ correct ’ decision .
48 This is not to say that economy is paramount ; indeed , economy is secondary to what should be an overriding principle in public health — namely , equity .
49 This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole .
50 This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists .
51 And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so .
52 That is not to say that antiquity is a valid criterion for the establishment of a convention .
53 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 .
54 This is not to say that people will not give the support ( as we know they do and invariably at great sacrifice ) ; but it does suggest that care by the community is seen as a less attractive option than care from professionals , but with the support and involvement of the family .
55 This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them .
56 This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England .
57 Though this is not to say that abortion is a topic to be taken lightly as it is a human life a woman is dealing with and I think she should think carefully about all her options before she makes a decision but in the end it is her baby and up to her what happens .
58 That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it .
59 This is not to say that R&D should not think in terms of processes that do not currently exist , but it emphasizes the need for discussion and agreement on how they shall be provided , in time for them to be in place when they are needed .
60 ( This is not to say that car refers to something different in each of these sentences — in both cases it is the whole car which is referred to . )
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