Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] to say that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can make no better compliment to Karajan , the Vienna State Opera Orchestra , and the singers than to say that all these intrinsic qualities of the work , not generally understood , were brought home . |
| 2 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 3 | Know-how is all important — and it is quite typical for a deputy head following an advanced part-time degree in education management to sigh with relief at the start of a module about , for instance , the management of assessment and to say that this was precisely what his head — with an eye mainly on the short term — hoped he would get out of the course . |
| 4 | There is probably no finer praise than to say that those who listen to Robson 's programme and then read his book should be guaranteed a sleepless night . |
| 5 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |