Example sentences of "[noun] to say [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , the one is just , so it may not be any great compliment to say that the cow has an equal chance erm but , but I , I actually do n't know the answer to that one , whether thought that |
| 2 | But it was certainly not my intention to say that the ASB in general and on other accounting questions was moving towards unfudgeable figures : indeed , the indications are that they will continue to ask companies and auditors to make judgments so as to distinguish case from case . |
| 3 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 4 | It is no exaggeration to say that the Bayeux speech established a new direction for postwar Gaullism . |
| 5 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |
| 6 | It is no exaggeration to say that the Word is the prime tool used by the Spirit of God in advancing the Christian mission . |
| 7 | It is no exaggeration to say that the task of providing classes of students with adequate and representative material to illustrate a course on the diseases of farm animals is still one of the most intractable problems veterinary colleges face today ; few have solved it satisfactorily . |
| 8 | Indeed it would not be an exaggeration to say that the pressures on the acquisition budget are almost certainly the most pernicious economic problem faced by academic research libraries today . |
| 9 | It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that the face of financial reporting in this country has already been transformed . |
| 10 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 11 | Research shows that fire bells induce panic and confusion or , even worse , people ignore them and wait for the PA announcement to say that the bells were a false alarm and everybody can now go back to bed . |
| 12 | No I think I think it 's it 's it 's a valid point to say that the trust should be talking to the people that actually use the building . |
| 13 | It is not just a tourist 's generalisation to say that the Basques , with their deep , narrow valleys , are stubbornly provincial and to describe the Catalans , whose forebears ruled a Mediterranean empire , as cosmopolitans . |
| 14 | It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman to say that the Government have given an undertaking not to turn away volunteers , but 102 Royal Artillery in Northern Ireland is at a strength of 103 per cent . |
| 15 | It is a commonplace to say that the triumph of Auschwitz was essentially organizational : we found the sacred fire that hides in the human heart and built an autobahn that went there . |
| 16 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 17 | It is therefore no legal answer to the ejectment to say that the contingency provided for has not happened . |
| 18 | Before the next Wednesday , Elizabeth carefully made a notice to say that the tea-stall would close . |
| 19 | This is by no means to say that the patient is not entitled to receive and indeed invite advice and assistance from others in reaching a decision , particularly from members of the family . |
| 20 | But I think it is it could well be counter-productive to put bans on buying tropical timber , particularly blanket bans , on the other hand , I think there 's a lot of case to be , a lot of point in asking people and pressing people to say whether the folk that the timber is coming from sustained yield forest . |
| 21 | A manufacturer takes responsibility for his product 's compliance and signs a declaration of conformity to say that the equipment meets an appropriate European ‘ harmonised ’ standard . |
| 22 | The Father came out this morning to say that the hall could , one of the first things Father told him was that the hall could n't be insured , I mean it even staggered erm Doris , cos she 's not heard of that before , impressed , I do n't know what impressed is , but |
| 23 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 24 | In the meantime , Hall wrote to Hunt on 21st August to say that the competition should be in three parts , with separate premiums for each . |
| 25 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 27 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 28 | In January 1795 Hoyle wrote to the Goldsmiths to say that the windows in the Schoolhouse needed repairing , and that the cost was estimated to be £16 . |
| 29 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 30 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |