Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [verb] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals .
2 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 .
3 This is not to say that they thought the movement could solve the boy labour problem , or the youth problem in general , but its ideas and its personnel would be useful in sustaining scientific collectivism .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance .
8 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 .
9 ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers .
10 That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts .
11 This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism .
12 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 .
13 That is not to say that she forgets the outrageous moments .
14 This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products .
15 In the London sample , one-tenth of classrooms had tables or desks arranged in rows : in Leeds we observed none ( though that is not to say that none existed ) .
16 That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth .
17 ‘ The lack of statistical significance calls for the exercise of caution in evaluating the study , but that is not to say that it disqualifies the study from consideration , ’ said Morling .
18 This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime .
19 This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people .
20 That is not to say that it involves no notion of a lawlike statement , or , to speak of reality rather than our language for it , no notion of lawlike connection .
21 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 .
22 This is not to say that I advocate the status quo .
23 That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled .
24 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 .
25 That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with .
26 Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next .
27 18 This is not to say that he envisioned heaven , like Ethel Walker , as a place of women only .
28 That is not to say that there has been universal agreement , but there has been an attempt to discover what is best for the consumer .
29 This is not to deny that they had enemies .
30 This is not to deny that they had enemies .
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