Example sentences of "is not to say that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 This is not to say that you will never deflect the opponent 's attack and then counter , because you will .
4 This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse .
5 This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception , language , memory or any other cognitive process .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas .
9 ( This is not to say that Pound 's decision was wrong .
10 This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime .
16 The key message is that kids cook quick — which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease .
17 This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did .
18 This is not to say that there are ideas and no things : that would be the ultimate scepticism .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists .
23 ‘ That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’
24 Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god .
25 To focus on Charlemagne is not to say that any one individual could have Christianized the political order single-handed .
26 Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle .
27 Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it .
28 This is not to say that Shadwell does not add some twists of his own .
29 This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products .
30 This is not to say that we did n't experience all the anguish you expect in your schooldays , the pains of unpopularity or difficulties with hated subjects .
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