Example sentences of "this is not [verb] that [art] " 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 | But this is not to say that no management is possible , and that the idea is best dropped . |
| 3 | This is not to say that no one who has left China since 1980 has had dissident tendencies , but they would probably keep these concealed before being allowed out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Males take more rabbits , and females more fish and small mammals , but this is not to say that a female ca n't kill a rabbit or that a male wo n't kill mice . |
| 6 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 7 | This is not to say that a science and technological education had to take on this character , for clearly there were and always have been those who are committed to inspiring in students a love of , and a care for , their subjects in those disciplines . |
| 8 | This is not to say that a statute might not assign the relative meaning of ‘ if X , ’ as between courts and tribunals , differently in diverse areas . |
| 9 | This is not to say that a three E's audit is never undertaken in nationalized industries . |
| 10 | This is not to say that a single find is valueless . |
| 11 | This is not to say that a preference for one style or the other is inappropriate ; it is to recognise that both are still in their infancy and neither one markedly superior to the other in all respects . |
| 12 | This is not to say that a management buy-out is not arm 's length in most respects . |
| 13 | This is not to say that every idea for reform is mistaken . |
| 14 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is not to say that the procedure employed in studies of discriminative learning will be quite without effect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the detail is ideal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All this is not to say that The World in Space lacks value . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the range of powers thus exercised need be comprehensive . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the position is wrong but only that it is arguable , or in other words , open to conceptual evaluation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |