Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get a ticket , not a criminal record , ’ the ads urge you ; but this is easier said than done . |
| 2 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 3 | This is easier said than done . |
| 4 | But this is easier said than done . |
| 5 | This is easier said than done . |
| 6 | But for colleagues who have illness in the family or marital troubles , this is easier said than done . |
| 7 | Like practically everything in business this is easier said than done , as the plethora of books , theories , advice and consultants testify . |
| 8 | This is easier said than done . |
| 9 | If nursing already recruits 25% of leavers with between 5 " O " levels and 2 A levels , this is easier said than done , particularly when one considers that other employment agencies are also preparing to compete more aggressively to obtain their share from the pool . |
| 10 | Of course , this is easier said than done . |
| 11 | This is partly to say that Richard Chandos and his frequent companion-in-arms , George Hanbury , are commonplace adventurers compared with Rudolf Rassendyll , in spite of the resonance of Chandos 's name . |
| 12 | This is easily said and less easily done , but it is not critical to the final working . |
| 13 | This is easily said , and I recognise that warring against this ideal state of affairs will be the actual circumstances of your story . |
| 14 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 15 | This is not to say , of course , that the age of the corporate brewery — or multinational — will not return : in SAVE and CAMRA 's 1983 report , Nikolaus Boulting wisely warned that future students of interior design may find ‘ that the cycle is complete , from company identity to corporate image and back in three generations ’ . |
| 16 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 17 | This is not to say , however , that any old kick will do . |
| 18 | This is not to say that you will never deflect the opponent 's attack and then counter , because you will . |
| 19 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 20 | This is not to say that folk psychology already has adequate theories of perception , language , memory or any other cognitive process . |
| 21 | This is not to say that functionalists would be in sympathy with Freud 's belief that certain unconscious mental processes are so anxiety-provoking that they must not be allowed to enter awareness . |
| 22 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 23 | ( This is not to say that Pound 's decision was wrong . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves . |
| 25 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |
| 26 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 27 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 28 | This is not to say it was quiet , for Hobbes published controversial Objections to Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , and was involved in acrimonious arguments with leading mathematicians about his attempts to square the circle . |
| 29 | This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did . |
| 30 | This is not to say that there are ideas and no things : that would be the ultimate scepticism . |