Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it 's sufficient to say that Diana , herself a Romanian , was deeply shocked and did not realise that children were living in such awful conditions in her own country . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's fair to say that magic was more important to Rupert than science . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is better to say that it is a prima facie relationship which can be used for prescriptive advice to hold back investment unless the ‘ dog ’ management can establish an exceptional case . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is sufficient to say that any mutually beneficial activity , properly planned , resourced and monitored is in scope , but that any member of ad hoc or unintegrated activities , however regularly they take place , are not . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is sufficient to say that prior to cutting back parts of the Forêt de la Montagne , the slopes of Verzy were not dissimilar topographically to those of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is safe to say that the minimum requirements must be that the product runs on standard platforms while allowing data created within other environments to be imported and incorporated . |
| 7 | So it is misleading to say that camp is the gay sensibility ; camp is an invasion and subversion of other sensibilities , and works via parody , pastiche , and exaggeration . |
| 8 | Generally it is true to say that use of Creole is restricted to the private domain , and informal situations . |
| 9 | This process is described fully in Chapter 2 ; here it is sufficient to say that staff involvement in the decision-making process means that the School Development Plan has the support of the staff , who feel a sense of authorship and ownership of it . |
| 10 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 11 | Whenever anyone , Y , is in a position to say , ‘ X is φ ’ on account of what he sees , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it is true to say that X appears to him to be φ , even if it goes against our linguistic practice of saying , ‘ X appears to Y to be φ ’ only if we have a reason not to say , ‘ X is φ ’ . |
| 12 | Yet it is true to say that the nuances of the legal institutions were imperfectly understood : if the epitomator of Gaius knew that there were differences between legacies and trusts , he still did not know that the word fideicommissarius should refer to the beneficiary of a trust and not to the trustee . |
| 13 | Therefore it is true to say that , when a person stiffens the neck muscles and pulls back the head , not only is the body 's natural coordination being obstructed but it is also being prevented from returning to its natural state of ease and equilibrium . |
| 14 | Unfortunately fresh tissue was not available from the carcinoma , and therefore it was impossible to say whether it also contained a p53 gene mutation . |