Example sentences of "not [to-vb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that such observation is itself a straightforward method of investigation . |
| 3 | All this is not to suggest that political advantage has not had and does not have any effect on the conduct of macro policy , but rather that the evidence and theory presented is consistent with its having a small rather than dominating impact . |
| 4 | Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole . |
| 5 | To ask how a piece of machinery worked was not to deny that each part had been designed with a function in mind . |
| 6 | All this is not to deny that perfect contestability provides a benchmark , moreover an extremely important one as we shall see shortly . |
| 7 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 8 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |
| 9 | This is not to imply that this form of historical revisionism is ideologically neutral or objective . |
| 10 | This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 14 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 15 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 16 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 17 | This is not to say that all conflict is constructive . |
| 18 | This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified . |
| 19 | That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’ |
| 20 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 21 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 22 | That is not to say that day-to-day management can be accomplished by committee . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To say that a question should be answered fully is not to say that irrelevant matter should be introduced into the answer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His aim is not to show that one way of acquiring knowledge is better than another , but that ‘ learning and human knowledge are weak and uncertain' . |