Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] without saying [that] " in BNC.

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1 On second thoughts , it might be better to say that it goes without saying that linguistic communication is a matter of conveying ideas or thoughts .
2 Similar advice was apparently given by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party , i.e. that ‘ the gate to victory is a disciplined and powerful Bolshevik Party ’ and it goes without saying that in Stalin 's Russia deviation by small and not exactly successful communist parties abroad was not encouraged .
3 By Southerness , she was back to her considerable best and it goes without saying that it will be interesting to see what this most confirmed of amateurs will make of 1990 .
4 But it goes without saying that a person presenting a potential employer or insurance company with unsolicited evidence that he does not carry the genes predisposing for various ailments will have a definite advantage .
5 But it goes without saying that their refined phrasing and shading is infinitely preferable to the garish exaggeration often forced on these endearing Czech mood-pictures .
6 As we have already pointed out a number of times , the predicative position is the surface structure which marks assignment of the property of the adjective to the entity of the subject ; but it goes without saying that the subject of a sentence can not be merely a relation between two parts of itself ; therefore an adjective which is specialized to qualify the relation between entity and description is automatically excluded from predicative position for that reason .
7 ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’
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