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

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1 This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it .
2 This is not to suggest that motorists should be treated differently .
3 This is not to suggest that consistency is an unworthy value : the argument is rather that there is a need to decide upon the categories to which the argument of consistency is being applied , and above all to recognize that simple resort to the allegation of inconsistency might serve to conceal the conflict between a number of social interests or principles .
4 This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people .
5 That is not to suggest that the gonococcus is not present at these different sites but that it is difficult to identify microscopically .
6 This is not to suggest that such observation is itself a straightforward method of investigation .
7 This is not to suggest that an attempt at measurement is not worthwhile , just that it may not be as simple as some raw figures suggest .
8 this is not to suggest that I function like a computer ( which would be anathema to me ) , for there is always something to react to , something new to learn , or to improve .
9 This is not to suggest that you dash out and decimate your garden .
10 This is not to suggest that boundaries are always of clearly definable kind , and only one .
11 This is not to suggest that we are complacent .
12 This is not to suggest that the criticisms made by Mr Smith should simply be accepted as an unavoidable fact of life .
13 This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties .
14 This is not to suggest that the age variable can be ignored .
15 This is not to suggest that those outside this range never work , but rather that in advanced countries gainful employment is considered to be mainly the responsibility of those in this particular age band of 50 years .
16 This is not to suggest that today 's B Ed student is less competent than his or her counterpart of the 1950s or early 1960s .
17 The point of counterfactuals , on this view , is not to suggest that at any particular moment something else might have happened , but to indicate and test the relations between causes and consequences .
18 This is not to suggest that our primary schools are perfect ; perfection in something as complex and variable as education would be very hard to achieve .
19 This is not to suggest that most people will not respond to the reward of money .
20 This is not to suggest that Worsley 's book is just a compilation of pretty drawings .
21 To reject the picture is not to suggest that people did not have a very real experience of God .
22 But this is not to suggest that their behaviour is unpatterned .
23 The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type .
24 This is not to suggest that the average speaker of English does not understand the differences of meaning .
25 This is not to suggest that each of the sample antiracist statements does not have something pertinent to say about the particular instance of racism which it privileges as paradigmatic .
26 This is not to suggest that English villages are currently hotbeds of social unrest , far from it .
27 This is not to suggest that the basis of local — newcomer conflict in English villages has been entirely illusory — far from it , as the previous discussion has shown .
28 This is not to suggest that no efforts are being made by the main-line churches in this country to care for and accommodate the traditions of those in their congregations who have come from overseas .
29 This is not to suggest that the existing system does not have its problems .
30 However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ?
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