Example sentences of "[adj] to say that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 2 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 3 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 4 | It would be naive to say that marital dissatisfaction is always a feature in marital unfaithfulness but in long-term or continued adultery the comment is probably a true one . |
| 5 | It would be simplistic to interpret ‘ TransForm ’ as a study of the overlapping and interconnection of painting and sculpture in the twentieth century ; it would be more exact to say that avant-garde movements abandoned the concept of ‘ a painting ’ or ‘ a sculpture ’ as such . |
| 6 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 7 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 8 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 9 | It is all very well to say that local circumstances will dictate responses but there will be many similar circumstances from place to place , so that there is clear benefit in adopting common approaches if not standard solutions . |
| 10 | I hope that he will be able to say that great attention is now being given to Lord Cullen 's concerns about the ventilation systems . |
| 11 | It is certainly not objectionable to say that personal freedom is sometimes limited : any society based on the rule of law does that . |
| 12 | It is reasonably accurate to say that good teaching comes largely from thorough planning , yet all too often far too little planning time is made available . |
| 13 | It is fair to say that international organizations are much more sensitive to this accusation than formerly . |
| 14 | It is probably fair to say that full-time tribunal chairmen are considered of roughly equal status to circuit judges , with Presidents , regional chairmen and lawyer members of appellate tribunals roughly equal to High Court judges . |
| 15 | I think it is fair to say that hard words were spoken , but I never knew exactly what was said . |
| 16 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 17 | Mrs Porter said it was difficult to say that local authorities should help Victim Support , but added : ‘ It would be nice if we could be considered because of our vital service . ’ |
| 18 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 19 | The world can be divided up on a purely climatic basis by using any climatic parameters one likes , so that the number of possible methods of division is very large , but , as most of these are meaningless geographically , it is possible to say that pure climatic regions do not exist , at least from a geographer 's point of view . |
| 20 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 21 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 22 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 23 | My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways . |
| 24 | From the later middle years onward , there is some decline in the body 's production of the male hormones and this will begin to have marked effect in the seventies ; but , again , continued sexual activity will serve to keep hormonal levels up , so that it is legitimate to say that sexual activity in the man can continue — provided his health is good and the system is not impaired by disability — well into the eighth decade of life or even longer , provided he keeps in practice . |
| 25 | It 's true to say that multiple orgasm can be achieved — through a combination of extreme arousal , great self-confidence , a complete lack of anxiety and a wonderful partner . |
| 26 | It would be true to say that catholic nationalism was at its most formidable in the years between independence and the rise of pragmatic politics in the Republic under Sean Lemass in the late 1950s . |
| 27 | The ‘ folk community ’ is idealized , with no recognition of the huge variety of musical practices ( and social forms ) involved ( think of the differences between the music , and social function , of , say , West African griots , American Indian ceremonial songs and European medieval ballads ) ; in very , very few — if any — of these cases is there no class differentiation ( and thus hierarchies , divisions of function , and so on ) ; in none would it be true to say that musical production occurs ‘ naturally ’ rather than as the result of learned skills and conventions . |
| 28 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is sufficient to say that prior to cutting back parts of the Forêt de la Montagne , the slopes of Verzy were not dissimilar topographically to those of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 30 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |