Example sentences of "to say that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 2 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 3 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 4 | I screamed and rattled my chains ; they turned sluggishly away as if to say that one way or another they would eventually dine on my flesh . |
| 5 | A well-known example is ‘ controversy ’ , which is pronounced by some speakers as and by others as ; it would be quite wrong to say that one version was correct and one incorrect . |
| 6 | To say that one copy is sufficient and that it is probably available at the British Library is good enough grounds for an organisation such as Brent Library to throw out books that are ideologically unsound , as unquestionably it did . |
| 7 | But , said Mr Mulrine : ‘ We have already had one fatality because of parked cars on Hollyhurst Road are you asking me to say that one death is acceptable ? ’ |
| 8 | However , to say that one bank , or one wind direction , is always better than another does not make much sense . |
| 9 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 10 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |