Example sentences of "this [is] not to suggest " 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 ‘ the more the better ’ ; but that there appear to be other measures that portend failure better than leverage ratios . |
| 3 | This is not to suggest that motorists should be treated differently . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is not to suggest ( as some have ) that the attempt to oust Mrs Thatcher was initiated by the media . |
| 7 | This is not to suggest that such observation is itself a straightforward method of investigation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is not to suggest that you dash out and decimate your garden . |
| 11 | This is not to suggest that boundaries are always of clearly definable kind , and only one . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest that we are complacent . |
| 13 | This is not to suggest that the criticisms made by Mr Smith should simply be accepted as an unavoidable fact of life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is not to suggest that the age variable can be ignored . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 20 | But even then , this is not to suggest , in the way that the positivists often seemed to do , that the result is some form of objective , scientific exercise . |
| 21 | This is not to suggest , however , that deconstruction in any sense brings another knowledge to bear : rather it involves a critique of Western knowledge that works by exploiting the ambivalent resources of Western writing , as if Marxism were to produce a critique of ideology without the advantage of its science ( which , given the current ambiguous status of Marxist science is not a possibility to be dismissed lightly ) . |
| 22 | This is not to suggest that most people will not respond to the reward of money . |
| 23 | This is not to suggest that Worsley 's book is just a compilation of pretty drawings . |
| 24 | This is not to suggest a unilinear path of ever-increasing usage . |
| 25 | But this is not to suggest that their behaviour is unpatterned . |
| 26 | The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type . |
| 27 | This is not to suggest that the average speaker of English does not understand the differences of meaning . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is not to suggest that English villages are currently hotbeds of social unrest , far from it . |
| 30 | 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 . |