Example sentences of "[conj] to say that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid Ivy did n't say anything interesting about Murdoch and Spark , except to say that the former is to be taken more seriously — than the latter , not than she is . |
| 3 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 4 | But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter . |
| 5 | But to say that an immune deficiency here and an immune deficiency there constitutes one or even two closely related diseases is like saying that apples explain oranges merely because both of them contain a number of pips . |
| 6 | The figure was well below City estimates and one analyst went as far as to say that the detailed announcement ‘ deserves to set the standards for all ’ . |