Example sentences of "but to say that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say that the devil finds work for idle hands to do is misleading because hypermoralistic or ( if meant literally ) hypertheological . |
| 2 | But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter . |
| 3 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 4 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 5 | But to say that an immune deficiency here and an immune deficiency there constitutes one or even two closely related diseases is like saying that apples explain oranges merely because both of them contain a number of pips . |