Example sentences of "is [adv] to say that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law .
2 This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society .
3 This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments .
4 Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY .
5 This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method .
6 This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved .
7 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 .
8 This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects .
9 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 .
10 This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are .
11 But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities .
12 However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher .
13 This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse .
14 That is not to say that such an idea , or something like it , is not necessary in Italy .
15 Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere .
16 This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action .
17 This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation .
18 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI .
19 This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective .
20 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 .
21 This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control .
22 This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership .
23 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 .
24 That is not to say that that necessarily will discount any area , but in erm reflection of paragraph thirty one of M P G one , I think it is important that that sort of issue erm er is included .
25 This is not to say that all the stages are equally well-represented and well-understood .
26 This is not to say that all care orders were welcomed by the families ; and there is clearly the possibility that , while this intervention was favoured by the parents , it was resented by the children .
27 This is not to say that all conflict is constructive .
28 This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified .
29 This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them .
30 This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus .
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