Example sentences of "is not to deny that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 2 | This is not to deny that the Bolsheviks ' intentions for future political , social and national minority devolution were genuine , but at the close of the Civil War they governed a financially exhausted country . |
| 3 | This is not to deny that there were not some major setbacks . |
| 4 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 7 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 12 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 13 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 14 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 15 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 16 | This is not to deny that individuals are able to think , that they have ideas , build theories , etc . |
| 17 | This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence . |
| 18 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 19 | However , this is not to deny that pornographic videos may well have a damaging effect . |
| 20 | This is not to deny that the monarchs themselves became increasingly conscious of the social tension , economic stagnation , and moral evil implicit in serfdom . |
| 21 | This is not to deny that it is possible for the market ( of whatever kind ) to impose some form of restraint on corporate managers . |
| 22 | This is not to deny that they had enemies . |
| 23 | This is not to deny that the custodians of institutionalized religion have often done their best to censure what they perceive to be damaging scientific conclusions . |
| 24 | This is not to deny that there may be good reasons why members of religious minorities should have sought a career in science and why they excelled in particular areas . |
| 25 | All this is not to deny that perfect contestability provides a benchmark , moreover an extremely important one as we shall see shortly . |
| 26 | Now that is not to deny that it is in effect surely of bringing Christians together , but there are certain questions . |
| 27 | This is not to deny that the purpose of teaching is the education of children , but to stress the crucial relationship between a teacher 's professional development and his or her personal growth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is not to deny that some young mothers do have short-term relationships and one-night stands , but the ones that get " caught " are more often those who are in love and in a steady relationship . |
| 30 | This is not to deny that there are those amongst the Sandinistas who are urging a more orthodox Marxist-Leninist approach to the problems of Nicaraguan development and the need to counter threats from Washington , but to date the Nicaraguan Communist party ( Partido Socialista Nicaragüense ) has been almost completely excluded from the process of implementing the revolution . |