Example sentences of "this is not [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 2 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 3 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 4 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 5 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 6 | This is not to say that middle-class girls do n't get pregnant , they do , but they are more likely to be encouraged to use contraception , and also take the option of an abortion more than working-class girls . |
| 7 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 8 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 9 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 10 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 11 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 12 | 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI . |
| 13 | This is not to say that such clauses will be ineffective . |
| 14 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 15 | This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects . |
| 16 | This is not to say that all the stages are equally well-represented and well-understood . |
| 17 | This is not to say that all care orders were welcomed by the families ; and there is clearly the possibility that , while this intervention was favoured by the parents , it was resented by the children . |
| 18 | This is not to say that all conflict is constructive . |
| 19 | This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified . |
| 20 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 21 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 22 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 23 | Finally , it must be stressed that while many of the entries are arguably early , this is not to say that all have been correctly dated . |
| 24 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 27 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 28 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 29 | This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women . |
| 30 | This is not to say that mass markets have disintegrated or that economies of scale are irrelevant to competitive performance . |