Example sentences of "this is [adv] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 2 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 3 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo . |
| 6 | This is not to say that the procedure employed in studies of discriminative learning will be quite without effect . |
| 7 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 8 | This is not to say that the detail is ideal . |
| 9 | This is not to say that the one is better than the other , music and poetry are for ever different and it is the difference that accords us the added joy . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 11 | All this is not to say that The World in Space lacks value . |
| 12 | This is not to say that the range of powers thus exercised need be comprehensive . |
| 13 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 14 | This is not to say that the position is wrong but only that it is arguable , or in other words , open to conceptual evaluation . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 16 | This is not to say that the Piaroa have formed a totally peaceful society , and I have written elsewhere ( 1986a ) on their discourse of predation , cannibalism , and revenge . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the policy-making is wrong or misplaced , but rather to make clear that our questioning of research and evidence is not always simple or effective . |
| 18 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 19 | This is not to say that the ‘ generalists ’ ( with whom I would number myself ) are sceptical of scholarly writing and research . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the USSR has not sought political dividends from economic ties . |
| 21 | This is not to say that the regulating authorities should intrude into the investigation process or seek to influence or to duplicate it . |
| 22 | This is not to say that the stockmarket must crack , even if bond prices go on falling . |
| 23 | This is not to say that the mornings and evenings were devoid of expresses , or indeed interest . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the school made no advances in this area . |
| 25 | This is not to say that the picture is perfect . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the standard of reportage is not high — but quality varies as does layout and printing . |
| 27 | This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy . |
| 28 | This is not to say that the child or young person is always right ; it is , perhaps , to say that he or she is seldom completely wrong . |
| 29 | All this is not to say that the clergy lacked grievances generally against the king , but that they were neither of the kind to excite lay sympathy nor even sufficiently widespread or fundamental to unite the clergy themselves . |
| 30 | This is not to say that the sciences are ‘ objective ’ or even that all scientists suppose them to be so , nor that they do not sometimes have an active or applied emphasis , or that they are not sometimes reflexive and even philosophical , although in practice the ‘ philosophy of science ’ seems to be marginal to the mainstream of scientific activity . |