Example sentences of "[be] not imply that " in BNC.

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1 Do n't misunderstand me , I am not implying that she should be working …
2 I am not implying that there is communication between friends on a supernormal , still less a supernatural , plane , though I would not exclude it : there is just enough evidence for telepathy to explain certain experiences that most of us have had , or are convinced that we have had , once or twice .
3 If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause .
4 It is important also to note that we are not implying that any major catastrophe will occur should the stress level continue to rise so high that the glass spills over .
5 Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view .
6 Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood .
7 This is not to imply that scientists , and others in challenging occupations , should not be concerned about the human desire to seek better understanding of what is meant by ‘ god ’ , or with any consequent religion .
8 When I suggest that women have a strong ability to communicate with each other and form a collective body , it is not to imply that the individual should lose herself entirely in this .
9 ( This is not to imply that any of the individuals involved were not qualified for the positions they held ) .
10 This is not to imply that the Bible has no authority : .
11 However , this is not to imply that the observer simply has to remain ‘ detached ’ as opposed to ‘ involved ’ .
12 This is not to imply that we need always be certain nor never make mistakes ; but in cases of doubt we should nonetheless be ready with some description : I see something black and circular in the road , I hear creaks and rustlings downstairs .
13 But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required .
14 But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human .
15 But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like .
16 To stress the importance of the repressive political environment is not to imply that it is the ‘ natural ’ destiny of labour movements to become moderate and accept the basic ground rules of capitalism .
17 This is not to imply that areas outside review are inadequate : the ‘ need for institutional change ’ review , which was a Modular Course initiative , revealed no perceptions of urgent need for change in any area of Polytechnic management .
18 This is not to imply that expressions of sophisticated learned eloquence should be abandoned in favour of popular writing .
19 This is not to imply that this form of historical revisionism is ideologically neutral or objective .
20 This is not to imply that they are exceeding their disciplinary mandate in examining topics which might be said to belong to some other discipline ; simply that their interests in doing so are different .
21 ( This is not to imply that Persia was then , as now , populated mainly by Shiites .
22 Stressing these elements of continuity is not to imply that nothing changed .
23 This is not to imply that the mid-nineteenth-century ( male ) bourgeois ( or those who aspired to be like him ) was merely dishonest , preaching one morality while deliberately practising another , though patently the conscious hypocrite is more often to be found where the gap between official morality and the demands of human nature is unbridgeable , as in this period it often was .
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