Example sentences of "[adj] to say that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 2 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to say that the Muftilik was created simply in imitation of either ; but either and , in view of the period , more likely the former-may have been imitated to answer the need for a similar office in the Ottoman state . |
| 4 | It is quite another to say that an absence of a power of remit vested in the House is an insuperable barrier to the Court of Appeal exercising its own jurisdiction to relist . |
| 5 | → I 'm afraid to say that the pickup is probably duff and will need attention by your local guitar repairer , or a pickup rewinding specialist . |
| 6 | Though he was careful to say that the solution was not to ‘ throw money at problems ’ , Clinton is recycling such old Great Society approaches as job-training , education programmes and the like , all part of the package that enabled the Democrats in the sixties to shirk what the party advocated in 1946 , namely a full employment act . |
| 7 | As regards first editions … no author could have left behind such confusion in the classification of his novels as Wallace , although it would be fairer to say that the fault lay not with him but with his publishers . |
| 8 | But is this to say that the author deliberately chose a means of expression which did not communicate what he wanted to communicate ? |
| 9 | I do not think that even the right hon. Gentleman would be prepared to say that every programme remains the same , irrespective of costs . |
| 10 | There is a sense in which the challenge to convention can become a convention in itself ; it is easier to say that a multitude of views will be tolerated than to put it into practice . |
| 11 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 12 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 13 | Indeed it is net too much to say that the traveller walking down the branching road becomes in the end an image of ‘ the Good ’ in Tolkien , and one opposed to the endless self-regarding circuits of the Ring . |
| 14 | Without them , it is impossible to say that a country has a constitution in the current international sense of the word . |
| 15 | In our judgment it is impossible to say that the barrister acted unreasonably . |
| 16 | It was impossible to say that the order made by the justices had any foundation in law and they had erred in principle in making it ; MacDougall v. Knight [ 1889 ] A.C. 194 , Scott v. Scott [ 1913 ] A.C.417 , Att. -Gen. v. Leveller Magazine Ltd . |
| 17 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's easy to say that the smashing of a guitar is a loss to some potential player or other , but very few guitars are smashed compared with , say , the thousands of great instruments that are stored away in collections , in bank vaults etc . |
| 20 | It is too easy to say that the Opposition are just scaremongering and making it all up , and it will not be as bad as we fear . |
| 21 | It is easy to say that the years of Unionist rule were a travesty of what democracy is , or ought to be . |
| 22 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 23 | Easy to say that the Movement was never more than a journalistic invention — the more so since its principals were ( almost certainly ) never together in one room . |
| 24 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 25 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 26 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 27 | For example , they are the most likely to say that the balance of power is now tipped too much in favour of women and that women with young children should n't work . |
| 28 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 29 | Staff had seen the written guidelines of the scheme , mentioned above , and the director expanded on these to say that the exercise was : |
| 30 | Millett J commented : ‘ It would not , I think , be unfair to say that the defendants wish to embark on a fishing expedition , and that what they hope to catch is not primary evidence , but material for cross-examination ’ . |