Example sentences of "[not/n't] say [that] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 It was implied , for instance , that the medical profession had not said that smoking is bad for you .
2 Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby .
3 But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount
4 The third principle tells us that when we call God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not saying that God is ‘ above ’ , ‘ outside ’ or ‘ beyond ’ the universe .
5 ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women .
6 This is not to say that dreams are unimportant .
7 This is not to say that meat is unimportant to us now .
8 That is not to say that Parliament was subservient .
9 All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance .
10 This is not to say that radicalism is dead ; far from it .
11 This is not to say that society was classless .
12 This is not to say that TV was always dominant .
13 This is not to say that tradition was the rule .
14 This is not to say that Bills were unknown in Japan , any more than Promissory Notes in the West , but Japanese commerce was heavily dependent on ‘ P Notes ’ as the basis of a complex credit system .
15 This is not to say that VDUs are necessarily safe .
16 ( Which is not to say that women are illogical , rather that our notions of logic may be androcentric .
17 This is not to say that Richard was irreligious .
18 This is not to say that Gloucester was consciously building up his own authority at the expense of the crown — the distinction is meaningless in Edward IV 's lifetime — but by 1483 the duchy connection was Gloucester 's as well as the king 's .
19 This is not to say that Gloucester was consciously building up his own authority at the expense of the crown — the distinction is meaningless in Edward IV 's lifetime — but by 1483 the duchy connection was Gloucester 's as well as the king 's .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 This is not to say that demand is necessarily elastic with respect to the rate of interest .
25 This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 That is not to say that antiquity is a valid criterion for the establishment of a convention .
29 In common with Bacon , Gassendi does not say that Aristotle is completely valueless : he acknowledges the greatness of his mind .
30 We must not say that integrity is a special virtue of politics because the state or community is a distinct entity , but that the community should be seen as a distinct moral agent because the social and intellectual practices that treat community in this way should be protected .
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