Example sentences of "is [not/n't] to say that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
2 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
3 | To say that religious beliefs have infiltrated discussions of scientific method is not to say that they have directly affected scientific practice , for statements about methodology have often been rationalizations , used to justify a research program already in existence . |
4 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
5 | This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance . |
6 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
7 | ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers . |
8 | That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts . |
9 | This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism . |
10 | This is not to say that I advocate the status quo . |
11 | That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled . |
12 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
13 | That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with . |
14 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |