Example sentences of "to say that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lord to say that that evidence will not assist you and should n't be received . |
| 2 | In my judgment , it is impossible to say that that decision is wrong and this appeal will be dismissed . |
| 3 | Yes , it costs a lot of money , but I think it 's fair to say that that cost is within reach of the serious working player , and it could well be the answer for aspiring rock guitarists who need ‘ that ’ sound . |
| 4 | Viewed as an ‘ independent robot ’ , I am happy to admit that a particular area of my brain controls my digestive processes and ‘ I ’ do not , but I certainly do not want to say that that brain area is ‘ aware ’ of those processes . |
| 5 | Counsel in support of the application this morning has not been able to say that that claim or allegation has been abandoned . |
| 6 | This is not to say that all criticism is unjustified . |
| 7 | This is not to say that all conflict is constructive . |
| 8 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 9 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 10 | It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract . |
| 11 | It is ridiculous to say that all males are basically evil while females are n't , and in view of that , girls would also have degenerated on the island into cruelty . |
| 12 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 13 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 14 | That is not to say that all linguists , or even the majority of them , have accepted the theory of transformational grammar that Chomsky put forward . |
| 15 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 16 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 17 | It would have been more accurate to say that all policemen and women ‘ should have ’ such a role , for unfortunately many do not ( see Trojanowicz and Pollard 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication . |
| 19 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 20 | While I 'm on the subject of secrecy , it is true to say that many politicians , sometimes justifiably , are paranoid about the subject . |
| 21 | In fact I am sorry to say that many aspects of the book are disappointing . |
| 22 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 23 | I have to say that neither piece is vintage Schumann , but when the old magic really starts to work ( as in the ‘ Gloria ’ and ‘ Agnus Dei ’ of the Requiem ) , one is left in no doubt that Schumann 's was a creative mind of the very first order . |
| 24 | That is to say that each space must , in association with all other spaces of the machine , logically perform some function . |
| 25 | There is ‘ unity of command ’ which is to say that each member of the organisation only has one direct supervisor . |
| 26 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 27 | 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI . |
| 28 | For what remains throughout of central interest and importance are the ontological claims expressed in such propositions , and to say that such propositions communicate certain characteristics of relevant concepts does little to explain the meaning of such claims . |
| 29 | Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere . |
| 30 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |