Example sentences of "not deny that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 2 | It is important to see , here , that Wittgenstein is not denying that people do have toothache ( that it really aches ! ) , or even that people sometimes reflect on their feelings and describe them , as in ( h ) . |
| 3 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , she 's been good to you , I 'm not denying that , but she ca n't stand the sight of me — never could . |
| 5 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 6 | While not denying that only individuals can ultimately feel the burden of taxation , absolutists feel that the corporation is a legal entity , an economic organism in and of itself . |
| 7 | I 'm not denying that the embryo , and later the adult , has a large-scale form . |
| 8 | The second point that I want to make is I 'm not denying that the western relief road would bring some improvement and if the western relief road did not damage did not cause serious environmental damage , I would not be arguing against it . |
| 9 | In taking this view we are not denying that the loss of liberty may actually be necessary in a few extreme cases and this should only be where the child presents a significant danger to him or herself or where there is a significant risk of major further offending and severe damage to community . |
| 10 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that the Bolsheviks ' intentions for future political , social and national minority devolution were genuine , but at the close of the Civil War they governed a financially exhausted country . |
| 12 | This is not to deny that there were not some major setbacks . |
| 13 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 14 | But to say that my desire for coffee is the cause is not to deny that there are physical structures in my brain that are the cause , or that those structures are present because of my previous experience . |
| 15 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 16 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 17 | This is not to deny that random changes are not automatically beneficial , but the direction towards improvement comes from natural selection ; i.e. from genetic changes that were an aid to survival . |
| 18 | This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution . |
| 19 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 20 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 21 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 22 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 23 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 24 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 25 | This is not to deny that individuals are able to think , that they have ideas , build theories , etc . |
| 26 | This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence . |
| 27 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 28 | However , this is not to deny that pornographic videos may well have a damaging effect . |
| 29 | This is not to deny that the monarchs themselves became increasingly conscious of the social tension , economic stagnation , and moral evil implicit in serfdom . |
| 30 | This is not to deny that it is possible for the market ( of whatever kind ) to impose some form of restraint on corporate managers . |