Example sentences of "is [adv] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 2 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 3 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 4 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 5 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 6 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 7 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 8 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 9 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 10 | This is not to say that you will never deflect the opponent 's attack and then counter , because you will . |
| 11 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 12 | This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception , language , memory or any other cognitive process . |
| 13 | This is not to say that functionalists would be in sympathy with Freud 's belief that certain unconscious mental processes are so anxiety-provoking that they must not be allowed to enter awareness . |
| 14 | That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 16 | ( This is not to say that Pound 's decision was wrong . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 18 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 19 | However , there are important cases , particularly Senegal and Tanzania , where the tendency towards a national identity has been more important than localism , which is not to say that the conflict has not existed . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |
| 21 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 22 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 23 | The key message is that kids cook quick — which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease . |
| 24 | This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did . |
| 25 | This is not to say that there are ideas and no things : that would be the ultimate scepticism . |
| 26 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 27 | This is not to say that removal of the clitoris was a routine operation either in the States or in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | This is not to say that you should never eat these things but that ultimately they should play a minimal part in your day-to-day eating . |
| 29 | This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists . |
| 30 | ‘ That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’ |