Example sentences of "[is] not [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 2 | This is not to eliminate all problems in advance . |
| 3 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 4 | Something on that scale , or beyond , will be needed if the lethal cocktail of growing populations and diminishing harvests is not to create further tragedy in much of the third world . |
| 5 | In this case , the aim is not to collect mundane detail for its own sake — to say what it was like to be a Young Conservative at the time of the fieldwork in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | The generally accepted policy is not to treat these tumours unless they are detected in a very young patient . |
| 7 | The intention here is not to turn this essay , or indeed the panel to which it contributes , into yet another moaning session about the state of British higher education . |
| 8 | The type of sampling used in the five community studies is quotasampling , and our main concern is not to claim absolute representativeness for the whole city , but to guard ourselves against the accusation that our informants might be hand-picked from amongst friends and neighbours — or , worse , from our students . |
| 9 | That is not to say technological effort can not help maximise the value of assets . |
| 10 | That is not to say that sleep or being awake are the only time-cues of importance to humans . |
| 11 | That is not to say that miscarriage of justice , or reform of criminal law does not occur . |
| 12 | However , to say all other courses are impossible is not to say this course is possible . |
| 13 | This of course is not to exonerate outside influences in toto because even the most altruistic of such schemes have regularly failed to take into account the specific requirements of local groups and their inherent land-management skills . |
| 14 | In fact such transformations are rare precisely because , if more than lip-service is to be paid to them , the practical implications are considerable ; which is not to deny that lip-service , in the form of campaigning and complaining , has its uses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is not to deny some level of autonomy to the latter , but to reject assertions of its virtual total autonomy . |
| 17 | As previously noted , the purpose and effect of Directives is not to regulate international transactions but to impose uniform laws operating on domestic transactions within each member State . |
| 18 | Secondly , the objective of the weighted capitation formula is not to identify relative need or morbidity but to allocate resources with the aim of meeting these needs . |
| 19 | This is not to suggest that history only happens because some later critic constructs it . |
| 20 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 21 | This is not to condemn such initiatives but to indicate the gap between their objectives and the actual work on the ground . |
| 22 | The second rule is not to condemn another person 's feelings when they share them . |
| 23 | The best way to cut public borrowing is not to cut public investment , but to cut unemployment . |
| 24 | He stresses that ‘ our business here is not to know all things , but those which concern our conduct ’ . |
| 25 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 26 | The idea is , is not to make any judgements about you people , for instance , the whole thing is totally anonymous but it 's to hear the state of the language as it is , I I assume , at the moment , and what 's going to happen is , they 're collecting a massive quantity of erm , of words . |
| 27 | The purpose of warranty insurance is not to provide general cover for all possible liabilities under the warranties but to provide cover for specific risks under the warranties . |
| 28 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 29 | While its main purpose is not to produce professional historians , the teaching of history in school should enable pupils to gain some understanding of what history is and what historians do . |
| 30 | To the extent that maximising profits conflicts with the public interest , the solution from this perspective is not to modify corporate objectives , but to strengthen the limiting conditions within which companies are required to operate . |