Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that white children or adolescents are generally as good at speaking Creole as black children . |
| 2 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 3 | I am not saying that natural energy flows do not exist , but to detect them alongside the multitude of artificial energy sources , and the thought forms of everyone who has visited or passed through the site , is likely to be confusing , to say the least . |
| 4 | In saying that the scientific/industrial paradigm is giving way and that something new is taking its place , we are not suggesting that economic activity will cease . |
| 5 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 6 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 7 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying that trendy clothes make a better person , possibly the reverse is true , but it 's the whole spectrum of youth culture . |
| 9 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |
| 10 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 11 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 12 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 13 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 14 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 15 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 16 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 17 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 18 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 19 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 20 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 21 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 22 | While reading commercial bar codes and displaying the relevant information is not a very practical proposition for the home user , that is not to say that do-it-yourself bar codes are totally impractical . |
| 23 | This is not to say that middle-class girls do n't get pregnant , they do , but they are more likely to be encouraged to use contraception , and also take the option of an abortion more than working-class girls . |
| 24 | There is no one solution to sociology 's empirical reference , no clear idea as to whether there ever could be , no one canonical method for all sociological research , and no one conception of data : data are whatever a researcher can make useful for meeting his/her research objectives , aims or problems , which is not to say that just any old thing will do . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To say that a question should be answered fully is not to say that irrelevant matter should be introduced into the answer . |
| 27 | That is not to say that British citizens in the legal sense have no rights , only that they are not part of the express legal concept of citizenship . |
| 28 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 29 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 30 | This is not to say that MARID-type metasomatism is a necessary precursor to all kimberlite genesis — the MARID suite is of restricted occurrence overall — but some form of metasomatism is an inevitable accompaniment . |