Example sentences of "[noun] is not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | To point out that complaining often functions as a self-defence is not to say that the complaint is invalid . |
| 2 | Freud is not saying that the individual feels the emotion which may underlie religious beliefs and practices , and that this is why they are performed . |
| 3 | In S/Z Barthes is not suggesting that literary texts implicitly refer to some transcendent model : literary texts can only cross-refer to each other . |
| 4 | Stressing these elements of continuity is not to imply that nothing changed . |
| 5 | His aim is not to show that one way of acquiring knowledge is better than another , but that ‘ learning and human knowledge are weak and uncertain' . |
| 6 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 7 | s The point is not to prove that officials are everywhere politically dominant . |
| 8 | To reject the picture is not to suggest that people did not have a very real experience of God . |
| 9 | While FoE is not arguing that children are exposed to radiation levels above legal limits , it is criticizing BNFL for not doing enough to fulfil its legal obligation to reduce the radioactivity of its discharges to the minimum . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that a system of local government finance would be without a method of equalisation . |
| 11 | It is important to see , here , that Wittgenstein is not denying that people do have toothache ( that it really aches ! ) , or even that people sometimes reflect on their feelings and describe them , as in ( h ) . |
| 12 | The point of this argument is not to maintain that there would be no practical problems , but to demonstrate that there are weighty issues of principle on both sides . |
| 13 | ‘ The role of SSSI is not to say that the rest of the countryside does n't matter , but show up areas which should be preserved at all costs . ’ |
| 14 | To stress the importance of the repressive political environment is not to imply that it is the ‘ natural ’ destiny of labour movements to become moderate and accept the basic ground rules of capitalism . |
| 15 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 16 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 17 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 18 | To say that religious beliefs have infiltrated discussions of scientific method is not to say that they have directly affected scientific practice , for statements about methodology have often been rationalizations , used to justify a research program already in existence . |
| 19 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 20 | The Trade and Industry Secretary told the Commons : ‘ The Government is not asserting that the conduct of the department was beyond criticism , given the benefit of hindsight . |
| 21 | But to say that my desire for coffee is the cause is not to deny that there are physical structures in my brain that are the cause , or that those structures are present because of my previous experience . |
| 22 | The aim of this report is not to demand that brewers turn the block back to 1620 , 1720 , 1820 or even to 1920 ; pubs have to make money , and have to adapt to some extent to changing needs and expectations . |
| 23 | To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them . |
| 24 | To say , however , that every society has a political system is not to assert that every society has a ‘ state ’ , in the sense of possessing a quite distinct and separate political apparatus . |
| 25 | I am also confident that BT is not achieving that by exploiting customers because of the tight price controls which Labour could never offer , since in its day the company was nationalised and did not work nearly as well . |
| 26 | At the same time , the additional possibility is not excluded that some of the crimes may have been chosen for the ‘ allegations ’ because individuals in high places had vested interests in having them pinned on persons other than the real culprits . |
| 27 | A is not alleging that B has broken his contract — he is simply saying ‘ Now you must perform — and if you fail to do so , that will be a breach of contract . ’ |
| 28 | To focus on Charlemagne is not to say that any one individual could have Christianized the political order single-handed . |
| 29 | If it finds that the plant is not working that could have serious repercussions , beyond the straight forward cost of replacement . |