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 general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 12 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is not to say that mass markets have disintegrated or that economies of scale are irrelevant to competitive performance . |
| 15 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 16 | This is not to say that MARID-type metasomatism is a necessary precursor to all kimberlite genesis — the MARID suite is of restricted occurrence overall — but some form of metasomatism is an inevitable accompaniment . |
| 17 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 18 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |
| 19 | All this is not to deny that perfect contestability provides a benchmark , moreover an extremely important one as we shall see shortly . |
| 20 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 21 | This is not to deny that local inspectors are skilled at informal observation , or able to give advice to teachers in particular areas of the curriculum . |
| 22 | However , this is not to deny that pornographic videos may well have a damaging effect . |
| 23 | This is not to deny that random changes are not automatically beneficial , but the direction towards improvement comes from natural selection ; i.e. from genetic changes that were an aid to survival . |
| 24 | All this is not to suggest that political advantage has not had and does not have any effect on the conduct of macro policy , but rather that the evidence and theory presented is consistent with its having a small rather than dominating impact . |
| 25 | The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type . |
| 26 | This is not to suggest that English villages are currently hotbeds of social unrest , far from it . |