Example sentences of "this [be] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to eliminate all problems in advance . |
| 2 | This is not to claim any existential reality for the underlying proposition ; it is merely a convenient expression . ) |
| 3 | This is not to say that ‘ public art ’ and the campaign for better public spaces should be dismissed lightly . |
| 4 | This is not to say that mother-tongue teaching in these circumstances , where there are a number of different languages , is necessarily the solution at all levels of education . |
| 5 | This is not to say that Aethelred was without rivals , among whom was one with apparently Deiran connections . |
| 6 | This is not to say that , in either tribe , the pigs ' ultimate destiny is any different from the destiny of domesticated pigs anywhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is not to criticise any individual or group , but rather to highlight potential problems as , for example , where the involvement of individuals might be interpreted by others as exceeding their authority . |
| 9 | This is not to deny that — as the rude awakening for the debtor countries of 1982 showed only too clearly — there were risks in unregulated credit creation . |
| 10 | This is not to deny some level of autonomy to the latter , but to reject assertions of its virtual total autonomy . |
| 11 | But what the Slovenes have legitimately gained for themselves , the people of Bosnia are having to pay for , although this is not to attach any special blame to the Slovenes . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest that history only happens because some later critic constructs it . |
| 13 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 14 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 15 | The way of avoiding this is not to list all the sounds , but rather to list the signals or messages that the cat is trying to convey to its companions . |
| 16 | This is not to condemn such initiatives but to indicate the gap between their objectives and the actual work on the ground . |
| 17 | Neuroscientists may amuse themselves by thinking up objections to homologies between brainstem structures , but this is n't pursued that seriously . |
| 18 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |