Example sentences of "be [adj] to say that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry to say that the same human impulses acted with me , particularly in relation to my bank manager , and I wrote a letter of acceptance . |
| 2 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 3 | Those necessities are sacks of flour and sacks of rice , although I am glad to say that the Iranian Government are now providing flour for every refugee within their borders , and certainly for the Shias . |
| 4 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 5 | I am happy to say that the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux are currently reviewing this policy and are confident that the situation will improve . |
| 6 | For them it may be right to say that no conceivable circumstance in their lives would change the nature of their convictions . |
| 7 | However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis . |
| 8 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 9 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 10 | Anything Royal Portrush choose to do is done well , and McGimpsey would be first to say that the famous Dunluce course is in superb shape . |
| 11 | Thus it would be difficult to say that the second person of the trinity is somehow male and the third female . |
| 12 | It would be fair to say that a substantial number would be included . |
| 13 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 14 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 15 | For example , if an application for a judicial review remedy raises politically contentious matters , a court might be inclined to say that an alternative political form of control , such as a ministerial default power , is the only one available . |
| 16 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 17 | The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals . |
| 18 | Furthermore , while it may well be correct to say that the implied licence doctrine ( so long as it survived ) itself involved the " adaptation " of the literal application of the statutory provisions " to meet one special type of case " , I do not think it correct that the [ old ] decisions … authorise or justify an application of the statutory provisions otherwise than in accordance with their ordinary and natural meaning … |
| 19 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 20 | We are anxious that all industrial customers should have access to competitively priced electricity and I am pleased to say that an independent survey showed that in the first year after privatisation three quarters of those customers experienced at least a 10 per cent . |
| 21 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 22 | He is right to say that a significant number of organs , which could be used for transplantation , are not used . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party is increasingly losing credibility with patients , the public and the NHS staff because we are seeing concrete achievements by the NHS as the reforms work out in practice . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party has been closely associated with the development of those dogmas over many years . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 26 | It 's easy to say that a bustling street is a sign of economic recovery , but how many of the people in your picture were actually spending money ? |
| 27 | But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean . |
| 28 | It is safe to say that the traditional Marxist ‘ base and superstructure ’ is notable for its absence in Foucault , but it is less clear what he thinks is the role of economics in social and penal change . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is safe to say that the minimum requirements must be that the product runs on standard platforms while allowing data created within other environments to be imported and incorporated . |
| 30 | It is safe to say that the entire nation is filled with a believing trust in the Führer such as has never before existed to this extent . |