Example sentences of "[be] [adj] say [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be easy to say that this volume is just another book ’ on organic synthesis — one which will sit alongside the excellent texts of S. Warren , and the more recent book by E. J. Corey and X. M. Cheng , The logic of chemical synthesis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the assessor is not involved in provision , they can take a more objective look at individual client need , be able to say whether some need is unmet , and not be tempted to offer those services for which they are responsible as the sole , potentially inappropriate solution to the client 's problems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The teapot , milk jug , sugar basin and tongs will require cleaning with Goddard 's powder before midday , so that all will be proper , and the visitors will not be able to say that this house is a slum inside , even if there is one outside . ’ |
| 6 | It would be fair to say that these tests are as details , if not more so , than those for human food . |
| 7 | It may be fair to say that this book , perhaps above any other , has generated a great deal of interest , world-wide , in the healing art of aromatherapy . |
| 8 | And looking round the hall tonight , I think I would be inclined to say that this occasion seems to have been successful in doing that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would probably be true to say that most woodwork projects around the house , from making a child 's desk to forming a stud partition wall , involve straight rather than curved cutting of wood . |
| 12 | In general , it would be true to say that most authors , once they have published their major research findings , feel no need to cite the ‘ raw ’ thesis upon which their initial publications are based . |
| 13 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |