Example sentences of "this is not [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 2 | This is not to claim that there would be a change in their basic natural impulses ( to assist animals or fellow beings , to protect children , prefer friends , and so on ) . |
| 3 | This is not to say that everything is roses hereabouts though , for when a mountainous swell approaches Stennis from the south west , the platform at the lower end of the terrace can be awash with spray and quite a lively place to be ! |
| 4 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 5 | This is not to say that they thought the movement could solve the boy labour problem , or the youth problem in general , but its ideas and its personnel would be useful in sustaining scientific collectivism . |
| 6 | This is not to say that they may be uttered with absolute impunity for the House itself , in regulating its own procedures , may treat as objectionable whatever it chooses . |
| 7 | This is not to say that they are not aware of them . |
| 8 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
| 9 | This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals . |
| 10 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 11 | This is not to say that they normally have no sense of injustice . |
| 12 | This is not to say that they are homogeneous — the nature of the seasonal peaks , their duration and the kinds of people employed differ considerably . |
| 13 | This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance . |
| 14 | This is not to say that they were anti-Francoist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is not to say that we need take so unconscionable a time to establish industrial democracy , but only that it would be naive to suppose that there will be no doubts and difficulties — and that it would be a great mistake to let them deter us from starting from present worse to go to prospective better . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers . |
| 18 | This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism . |
| 19 | Yet this is not to say that her contemporaries completely misread her first four novels , nor that they misjudged their merits . |
| 20 | This is not to say that whatever mystery you have chosen so as to lead your hero or heroine into these successively more and more suspenseful situations will have to be kept entirely hidden from your reader till the last pages . |
| 21 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
| 22 | This is not to say that his will be an entirely popular tenure of the DTI . |
| 23 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 24 | This is not to say that it may not be revised . |
| 25 | The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable . |
| 26 | This is not to say that it was wholly accurate . |
| 27 | This is not to say that it is nonsensical , in the context of the constitution of the United Kingdom , to speak of ‘ civil rights ’ or ‘ civil liberties ’ . |
| 28 | This is not to say that it would not encourage efforts at more intense integration : indeed , this was to be one of the major concerns of the Assembly . |
| 29 | This is not to say that it could not happen . |
| 30 | This is not to say that it is an undesirable practice if the interests of the patient will not be adversely affected by any consequential delay . |