Example sentences of "is [adj] to say [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He is right to say that a significant number of organs , which could be used for transplantation , are not used . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party has been closely associated with the development of those dogmas over many years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is impossible to say whether the younger Eratosthenes ( F.Gr.H. no. 745 Jacoby ) who wrote his books on Gaul about this time , 150 B.C. , had been encouraged by the Romans . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now , it is important to say that an intelligent expression of faith will still convey some sense of uncertainty . |
| 12 | It is accurate to say that the 80486 and Pentium processors use many of the same implementation techniques as RISC processors , but there is nothing in either processor that can be called a ‘ RISC integer unit ’ without distorting the term beyond any usefulness . ’ |
| 13 | It is accurate to say that the 80486 and Pentium processors use many of the same implementation techniques as RISC processors , but there is nothing in either processor that can be called a ‘ RISC integer unit ’ without distorting the term beyond any usefulness . ’ |
| 14 | It is fair to say that a considerable amount of effort was put into the Columbus Video with staff from within Columbus and from out with the project being involved . |
| 15 | In general , it is fair to say that the legally-sensitive nature of the statutory audit has tended to encourage the auditing profession to deflate shareholders ' expectations of audit . |
| 16 | Although a succession of Conservative governments since 1979 has expressed a firm belief in monetary methods of managing the economy , with the emphasis on controlling inflation , it is fair to say that the empirical justifica-tion for much of this policy has been thin . |
| 17 | It is fair to say that the greatest violators of human rights across the world are terrorists , but I stressed the fact that it was important for the Government of India to be more open in dealing with the accusations . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is fair to say that the chemical industry is seen as one of the worst polluters . |
| 19 | But it is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . |
| 20 | It is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . ’ |
| 21 | I hope it is fair to say that the main thrust of the defence to this claim was based on law . |
| 22 | It is fair to say that the British obscenity test is one of the few in the world which attempts to focus specifically on the ‘ protection of health or morals . |
| 23 | It is fair to say that the British extreme right has not been able to draw on specific traditions of activism that have assisted , say , the French FN or the Belgian VB in extending their influences so widely . |
| 24 | Further , there is such a large overlap between girls ' and boys ' test or examination results that it is true to say that a great many girls do better at mathematics than the majority of boys . |
| 25 | If the Saatchi Collection were to be dispersed , it is true to say that a whole era of international art would be effectively lost to the nation . |
| 26 | Many companies manufacture expansion cards featuring DSP chips ( for example Burr Brown , SMIS and Loughborough Sound Images ) and it is true to say that every major DSP chip is available on an expansion card . |
| 27 | While it is true to say that the best wine each year is often reserved for vintage wines , non-vintage blends are not necessarily inferior . |
| 28 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 29 | While it is true to say that the bare infinitive is more frequent in American English — Algeo ( 1988 : 22 ) found that the Brown University Corpus has only 25 per cent usage of to infinitives after help where the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus has 73 per cent — this begs the question nevertheless because both the bare and the to infinitives are used on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | Its full extent is unclear and although it is true to say that the 1977 Act does not impose a general standard of fairness on contract terms , s3 is capable of applying to many of the terms which will be included in a set of standard terms of trading . |