Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [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 ‘ 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 .
3 This is not to say that it may not be revised .
4 The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable .
5 ‘ Which is not to say that it was odious and conceited because it was a feminist .
6 I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time .
7 This is not to say that it was wholly accurate .
8 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 ’ .
9 That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It does not exclude anything ; but that is not to say that it can attain everything .
13 This is not to say that it could not happen .
14 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 .
15 This is not to say that it can not be used , merely that it is less than efficient .
16 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 ) .
17 That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’
18 That is not to say that it is out of touch with reality but that planning for the future requires thinking .
19 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 .
20 That is not to say that it was pure opportunism .
21 This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people .
22 erm Undoubtedly the university erm with it 's connections with the aristocracy and the landed gentry and the church was mainly royalist , but that is not to say that it all was .
23 He is not suggesting that it is ‘ thought ’ that is the main determining force .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 This is not to deny that it is possible for the market ( of whatever kind ) to impose some form of restraint on corporate managers .
27 Now that is not to deny that it is in effect surely of bringing Christians together , but there are certain questions .
28 It may be that it may help those in business understand their own , or their trading partners ' standard terms ; however , it is not intended that it should be used by persons without legal knowledge to draft standard terms without legal advice .
29 But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like .
30 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 .
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