Example sentences of "[adv] to say [that] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 2 | That is not to say that it involves no notion of a lawlike statement , or , to speak of reality rather than our language for it , no notion of lawlike connection . |
| 3 | ‘ The lack of statistical significance calls for the exercise of caution in evaluating the study , but that is not to say that it disqualifies the study from consideration , ’ said Morling . |
| 4 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 5 | This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people . |
| 6 | Today , as one of Gorbachev 's advisers , she goes further to say that it has led to the formation of social groups with diverging interests and destroyed the rational relationship , however slight , that existed between work and money . |
| 7 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 8 | The motion goes on to say that it draws the ‘ natural and disturbing inference ’ that the meetings and copy number 26 were linked . |