Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] not say " in BNC.
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1 | Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea . |
2 | ( Which is n't to say there are n't other reasons . ) |
3 | I 'm much less aggressive , which is n't to say I do n't have a strong ego … ’ |
4 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
5 | Which is n't to say that a particularly bad beer will be bought by any consumer , just because the brewer supported a cherished cause . |
6 | He was a good six inches taller than me , which is n't saying that much , but a lot heavier , twice as wide and maybe ten years older . |
7 | She was taller than me , which is n't saying a lot . |
8 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
9 | Which is not to say that much fine work is not achieved . |
10 | It was a not uncommon combination in a certain breed of Englishman and Englishwoman — a breed perhaps now vanished , which is not to say , improved upon . |
11 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
12 | I have had a religious experience — which is not to say , of course , that I am claiming a religious explanation for it . |
13 | However , there are important cases , particularly Senegal and Tanzania , where the tendency towards a national identity has been more important than localism , which is not to say that the conflict has not existed . |
14 | The key message is that kids cook quick — which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease . |
15 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
16 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
17 | Which is not to say that statements of fact had no implications of principle . |
18 | Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it . |
19 | Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere . |
20 | ‘ Which is not to say that it was odious and conceited because it was a feminist . |
21 | Which is not to say that ethyl alcohol drops do not work — they could help a chemical-sensitive patient by stimulating the liver to produce more detoxification enzymes . |
22 | Which is not to say that old-fashioned , blue-chip brands do not continue to pull in the plaudits . |
23 | Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park . |
24 | ( Which is not to say that women are illogical , rather that our notions of logic may be androcentric . |
25 | Thus a 10-month-old baby who failed to respond to its name , or to betray signs of recognition towards its mother , twin sister , or even its rattle , might well give therapists cause for concern ; which is not to say that the normal baby , who does succeed in reacting appropriately , is thereby yet self -conscious . |
26 | It is enough to mount a convincing argument , in this instance by someone who is prepared to get dirty hands for her convictions ; which is not to say that she must convince everyone . |
27 | Which is not to say that the nuclear powers should simply bang away at will . |
28 | Which is not to say we wo n't accept sponsorship . ’ |
29 | The idea is of some set of things which was required for the occurrence of the effect , which is not to say that the set includes all the things prior to the effect that were required for it . |
30 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |