Example sentences of "be to say [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 2 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 3 | The second possibility is to say that things get fixed along that chain once the objects with which we have to deal have become " large " . |
| 4 | A description that covers both cases is to say that geodesics are stationary paths ; this means that any small deviation of path from a geodesic produces no change in the length to first order in the deviation . |
| 5 | White-collar workers increased their share of manufacturing employment from 27.6 to 31.7 per cent between the 1971 and 1981 Censuses ; that is to say that services provided in offices and laboratories within manufacturing concerns increased in relative importance and largely escaped the process of job reduction which took place on the shop floor . |
| 6 | Which is to say that directions are better than sentences . |
| 7 | Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea . |
| 8 | That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption . |
| 9 | To remedy this , he suggests that arts education must be shown to be " vocational " , which is to say that arts should be shown to provide education for living , acting , doing , knowing , thinking , and enjoying . |
| 10 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |