Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance . |
| 4 | This is not to say that we did n't experience all the anguish you expect in your schooldays , the pains of unpopularity or difficulties with hated subjects . |
| 5 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 6 | This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people . |
| 7 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 8 | But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human . |
| 9 | Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used . |
| 10 | ‘ That is n't to say that he does n't have qualities of kingship . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Such has been the division that to describe a sociologist as a theorist is almost to suggest that he does not engage in field studies . |
| 13 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 14 | Leith began , but , when she was about to declare that she did not love Travis , she suddenly remembered that , in covering for him and Rosemary , she could not be selective . |
| 15 | What you would like to find , of course , is just one fuel tank because you think Andropulos is going to claim that he did n't abandon ship because he thought another fuel tank was about to go and he did n't want his precious passengers splashing about in a sea of blazing fuel oil which would , of course , also have destroyed the rubber dinghies . ’ |
| 16 | Gedanken was about to protest that she did go to discos and parties , and it was no big deal being a girl doing physics , but before she could open her mouth , there came the first question . |
| 17 | They were racing for records at the Iffley Road track in Oxford … the British Milers Club celebrated their thirtieth birthday by smashing three mile records … the first ever record breaker Sir Roger Bannister was there to watch and what did he see … the men 's four by one mile relay squad breaking the UK record … the women 's relay team creating a new world record and the junior relay team taking the gold medal by knocking a minute … off the world record … |