Example sentences of "[pron] is not to deny " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is reminiscent of the sort of inversion a fault-finding literary criticism can produce — which is not to deny , which is indeed to admit , that the Arab leaders and polemicists of the region have had their faults , including some of those which have been identified over the years by Commentary . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All of which is not to deny that , in that hugely complex tradition which is Marxism , there are profound insights which need to be kept in sight . |
| 4 | In fact such transformations are rare precisely because , if more than lip-service is to be paid to them , the practical implications are considerable ; which is not to deny that lip-service , in the form of campaigning and complaining , has its uses . |
| 5 | 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 ) : |
| 6 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |