Example sentences of "but it is [adj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
2 | But it is impossible to say whether a structure , along the lines alleged , exists . |
3 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
4 | Hunsdon himself died in debt , but it is impossible to say whether this was the consequence of high expenses at court or whether he was typical : in the upper reaches of royal service , where conspicuous consumption was demanded , much would depend upon luck . |
5 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
6 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
7 | I had not originally intended to make a great issue of the fact , but it is true to say that the pressure groups that study these matters in great detail are incensed at the way in which the orders have been introduced . |
8 | Holiday schemes , in other words , during the Christmas , er , particularly the summer holidays was extremely full in our areas that had these schemes , but it is true to say that some of the children did not pay their full amount . |
9 | But it is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . |
10 | I shall not pursue the matter further , as I have bored my Back-Bench and Front-Bench colleagues endlessly with it , but it is fair to say that there should be an equal playing field . |
11 | But it is fair to say that provision has comprehensively failed to grow in line with need and , in some respects , has worsened . |
12 | Precisely when this occurred can seldom be determined on any estates , because there are few series of complete manorial records , but it is safe to say that by the early fifteenth century the change had taken place widely on both lay and ecclesiastical lands , the latter being better documented over different parts of the country . |