Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event .
2 To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken .
3 To say that religious beliefs have infiltrated discussions of scientific method is not to say that they have directly affected scientific practice , for statements about methodology have often been rationalizations , used to justify a research program already in existence .
4 That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt .
5 This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance .
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 ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers .
8 That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts .
9 This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism .
10 This is not to say that I advocate the status quo .
11 That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled .
12 That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them .
13 That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with .
14 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 .
15 This is not to suggest that you dash out and decimate your garden .
16 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 .
17 Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used .
18 That 's not to say that we stop looking at it , and we 'll be looking in more and more detail at the workloads , matched up against the resources , as we get better information .
19 And that 's not to say that they replace triggers , because they are actually have a very important role to play in terms of being able to er maintain arbitrary business rules and model the way your organization works , inside the database repository .
20 That 's not to say that I think we made a mistake .
21 ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top .
22 The parent 's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness .
23 and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues .
24 Yeah , I mean it 's about to decide whether you lose situations now I lose Everybody else is much better than me , everybody else has got a far better right to actually
25 What I was going to suggest then , Chairman , in the light of , in a sense a change of , a change of thought by me over the Christmas period , in a way it 's probably best it happened , is to ask if we could , because I 'm , I 'm keen that , this kind of different kind of strategy , there is a , there is a member ownership of the strategy , rather than just put something to you , that you would then have to , you know you , you have the paper in front of you , it 's a thirty page document , and you decided is actually to suggest that you have actually a , a , a member group of , of , of a few members , perhaps three or four members , erm , to actually work with me on this , in the development of that strategy , so there was actually a member involvement , because it 's straying more into the political field .
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