Example sentences of "is not [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to eliminate all problems in advance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 4 | All the research shows that one of the best coping strategies is to let emotions out , and one of the worst is not to do that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’ |
| 9 | This is not to claim any existential reality for the underlying proposition ; it is merely a convenient expression . ) |
| 10 | The general effect of the [ Limitation ] Act is not to confirm any particular claim to land but merely to extinguish stale titles to it … |
| 11 | That is not to say that sleep or being awake are the only time-cues of importance to humans . |
| 12 | This is not to say that ‘ public art ’ and the campaign for better public spaces should be dismissed lightly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is not to say that Aethelred was without rivals , among whom was one with apparently Deiran connections . |
| 15 | That is not to say that miscarriage of justice , or reform of criminal law does not occur . |
| 16 | This is not to say that , in either tribe , the pigs ' ultimate destiny is any different from the destiny of domesticated pigs anywhere . |
| 17 | Alas , in most gardens , especially suburban , most of the Old and shrub roses will hardly be thought suitable ( size alone rules them out ) but that is not to say all will be unsuitable , any more than all H.T.s and Floribundas are really suitable . |
| 18 | However , to say all other courses are impossible is not to say this course is possible . |
| 19 | All of which is not to deny that , in that hugely complex tradition which is Marxism , there are profound insights which need to be kept in sight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is not to deny some level of autonomy to the latter , but to reject assertions of its virtual total autonomy . |
| 23 | The quick way is not to use any artificial fertilisers , chemical sprays or dusts . |
| 24 | The first way to avoid such danger is not to plead any general exclusion clause as a defence to an action for a class of liability for which the UCTA renders exclusion clauses unenforceable . |
| 25 | The idea is not to attempt all these at once — rather they could be used as sections in a loose leaf file and added to at intervals . |
| 26 | This is not to suggest that history only happens because some later critic constructs it . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | To invoke this example is not to suggest any direct connection between the English National Opera and the work of Auerbach . |
| 29 | Another rough guide is not to try more than approximately 4 or 6 different remedies without success before seeking more expert Homoeopathic advice . |
| 30 | This is not to condemn such initiatives but to indicate the gap between their objectives and the actual work on the ground . |