Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 2 | She is right to say |
| 3 | She only has herself to talk to and all she is able to say is ‘ I would that I were dead . ’ |
| 4 | Because she is not saying ‘ I love you ’ to one person , she is free to say it to everyone . |
| 5 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 6 | On the one hand , one is inclined to say that it gets the relation of theory to reality the wrong way round . |
| 7 | ‘ I believed that 's what one is supposed to say in these situations . ’ |
| 8 | When the change of form becomes too great for the old and the new form to interbreed successfully , one is entitled to say that a new species has been generated . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Finally it is appropriate to say something at this point about the fact , discussed in detail in Chapter 2 , that habituation does not show context dependence . |
| 12 | A thorough analysis of the regime 's operation lies beyond the scope of this work , but since the years between the referendum of 1962 and the great crisis of 1968 marked the high point of this monarchy , it is appropriate to say more about de Gaulle 's own role in it . |
| 13 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 14 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 15 | Equally it is inadequate to say the promise was given solely as a response to the political pressure of wartime radicalism . |
| 16 | It is right to say that the applicant asserts that since that time Mr. Tee has not been associated with the running of Winchester 's business , although of course on his own evidence he was the majority shareholder in that company . |
| 17 | … At the same time it is right to say that in her evidence … she repudiates the notion that any influence was exerted or any pressure put upon her , or that her husband made any misrepresentation to her . |
| 18 | It is right to say , ‘ If Christ is in you , ’ and in the next verse to say , ‘ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you , ’ for it is by means of the Spirit , the Spirit of God , the Spirit of Christ , that Jesus makes his home in the believer . |
| 19 | It is right to say to the House and to the nation that the Prime Minister is presently with the President of the United States and the Heads of State of most European Governments and others . |
| 20 | It is right to say that I have heard from Mrs Paul 's classroom assistant during the last academic year , she appears virtually to have acted as an enabler , but she was by no means dedicated to Paul as a one to one enabler and of course the extent of the attention of which she had to give to Paul detracted from her ability to give attention to other pupils . |
| 21 | It is right to say here , that equal care and flair were devoted , for example , to the magazines and old schoolbooks , and indeed to all the books given , however commonplace . |
| 22 | However , it is necessary to say a word or two here to refute this seemingly compelling argument . |
| 23 | Before describing the opportunities and shortcomings of such structures for conversion to domestic use , it is necessary to say something about the process of grinding grain to produce flour , because the anatomy of these buildings was dictated by this process . |
| 24 | Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) . |
| 25 | Since some of the issues raised in these definitional discussions and addressed elsewhere in this volume have a bearing on the approach adopted in this paper , it is necessary to say something about them first . |
| 26 | When treating the meanings of moral concepts such as aggression and tranquillity , it is necessary to say something , about the local theory of the moral agent , or person . |
| 27 | But since answering this question involves reference to some matters of fact , it is necessary to say something about those facts . |
| 28 | Before we see how the enclosure commissioners replanned the landscape of central England , and how we can identify their work today , it is necessary to say something briefly about the dating of the parliamentary enclosure movement as a whole . |
| 29 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so . |
| 30 | In order to draft effectively , and to make intelligent use of precedents , the drafter must not only know what to say but why it is necessary to say it , how to say it , and what will be the result of saying it differently . |