Example sentences of "[is] not say that the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But this is not to say that the great were the only people who mattered politically ; and they could not always rely on their followers .
2 Components 3 and 4 are much less important and are dominated by noise , though this is not to say that the small amount of information they contain is irrelevant .
3 This is not to say that the regulating authorities should intrude into the investigation process or seek to influence or to duplicate it .
4 This is not to say that the best alternative to positivistic scholarship is the exclusive study of the reader 's response , such as Richards advocated in his early works .
5 That is not to say that the other less thoroughbred horses do not have their place in the eventing world !
6 This is not to say that the other ten players do n't have to be good as well ( Witness Everton & Man Shitty ) , but I do feel a ‘ top drawer ’ keeper would make a tremendous difference to Leeds .
7 This is not to say that the general design of the accompaniment can not be conceived right from the start , as a fairly well-defined mental image .
8 That is not to say that the Labour party would not have signed last week 's communique — we would have .
9 Thus a 10-month-old baby who failed to respond to its name , or to betray signs of recognition towards its mother , twin sister , or even its rattle , might well give therapists cause for concern ; which is not to say that the normal baby , who does succeed in reacting appropriately , is thereby yet self -conscious .
10 This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct .
11 This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy .
12 But again , that is not to say that the Christian Socialists had necessarily got their priorities wrong , nor that the French emphasis was wholly misplaced .
13 This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas .
14 This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects .
15 This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won .
16 Which is not to say that the nuclear powers should simply bang away at will .
17 That is not to say that the trivial name was not without some information on , for example , its origin — formic acid from ants ( formica ) for instance .
18 This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo .
19 It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories .
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