Example sentences of "[be] to say in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is readily intelligible that Luxmoore J. should have considered that , when the discretion fell to be exercised , the equities were all on one side — that is to say in favour of the chargees , who had acted on the faith of a document of transfer which the mother had herself executed after having failed to make inquiries which would have revealed that the document related to the property . |
| 2 | To say that anything spiritual , such as God or the soul , is ‘ an incorporeal substance , is to say in effect , there is no … spirit at all ’ . |
| 3 | It follows that the approach of the coroner was : whatever other facts there may be , whatever the impact on the cause of death of any extraneous supervening or concurrent event , the death must be regarded as ‘ natural ’ and an inquest will not be held , unless it qualifies , in the opinion of the coroner , as something equivalent to gross negligence , that is to say in effect , manslaughter either by act or by neglect . |
| 4 | However , in its reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) , which was lodged after the judgments were delivered , the Commission discussed the compatibility of the nationality requirements with Community law also in the light of those judgments , that is to say in relation to the aims of the quota system . |
| 5 | He commented then , what he was to say in print later , that while he found Maritain a most charming man , his philosophical work , though claiming to reflect at every point Thomist orthodoxy , was in spirit quite unlike that of St Thomas : by which I presume he meant that Maritain had converted Thomas Aquinas into a French intellectual . |