Example sentences of "is [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 2 | The object is rather to demonstrate that the success of Nizan 's writing technique is ultimately dependent on the interaction of two different but , in the final analysis , mutually dependent discourses . |
| 3 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 4 | This is basically to ensure that the , the branches are complying er to legislations . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 6 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 7 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 8 | My purpose here is merely to suggest that the English choral tradition , with its reliance upon young voices ' and its tinge of Protestant Englishness , turns the memories and dreams of a social class into sound . |
| 9 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 10 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 11 | He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters . |
| 12 | When families like those in the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett hold on to their houses at all costs , it is only to discover that their houses hold on to them . |
| 13 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 14 | True prevention is thus to ensure that women are immunised against diseases which can cause mental handicap in the foetus long before they plan to conceive . |
| 15 | This is not to state that the middle class wants to exclude all the working class from the village . |
| 16 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 17 | This is not to claim that there would be a change in their basic natural impulses ( to assist animals or fellow beings , to protect children , prefer friends , and so on ) . |
| 18 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 19 | This is not to claim that Marryat ever intended his sea-stories to be read primarily as studies in character . |
| 20 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 21 | That is not to claim that illus.1 wholly corresponds to what was used in 1790 , or even 1806 : but on the other hand , it appears to be plausible in the light of these important contemporary writers . |
| 22 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 23 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 24 | This is not to say that you will never deflect the opponent 's attack and then counter , because you will . |
| 25 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 26 | This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception , language , memory or any other cognitive process . |
| 27 | This is not to say that functionalists would be in sympathy with Freud 's belief that certain unconscious mental processes are so anxiety-provoking that they must not be allowed to enter awareness . |
| 28 | That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means . |
| 29 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 30 | ( This is not to say that Pound 's decision was wrong . |