Example sentences of "[coord] this [be] [adv] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get a ticket , not a criminal record , ’ the ads urge you ; but this is easier said than done . |
| 2 | But this is easier said than done . |
| 3 | But this is not to say that no management is possible , and that the idea is best dropped . |
| 4 | The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable . |
| 5 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 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 | Males take more rabbits , and females more fish and small mammals , but this is not to say that a female ca n't kill a rabbit or that a male wo n't kill mice . |
| 8 | The upland areas have suffered fewer changes , but this is not to say that the upland landscape has remained unaltered . |
| 9 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 10 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 11 | 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 . |