Example sentences of "this is not [verb] that it " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime .
2 This is not to say that it may not be revised .
3 The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable .
4 This is not to say that it was wholly accurate .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 This is not to say that it could not happen .
8 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 .
9 This is not to say that it can not be used , merely that it is less than efficient .
10 This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) .
11 Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results .
12 This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people .
13 This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them .
14 This is not to deny that it is possible for the market ( of whatever kind ) to impose some form of restraint on corporate managers .
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