Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to say that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 2 | Bryson House director Peter McLachlan said : ‘ I am delighted to say that Belfast City Council has approved the initial planning stage for the watersports centre . |
| 3 | I am glad to say that Girobank have agreed to refund the 10 because , said a spokeswoman , ‘ Mr Kimbrey has never been overdrawn before , is a good customer , and it is a very small amount . ’ |
| 4 | On the hon. Gentleman 's last point , I am glad to say that work is being done on such devices so that we can trace cars more effectively . |
| 5 | Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement . |
| 6 | Times have changed , and I 'm sorry to say that Harold 's figure is the correct one . ’ |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) must be right to say that pay should increasingly be linked to performance . |
| 8 | In this case the cynics might be right to say that pigs will fly . |
| 9 | The decision in Chamberlain was also followed and referred to in Vestey v IRC 31 TC 1 but Lord Reid did give a warning : The ingenuity of those who devise these schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property can never be comprised in a settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 10 | The ingenuity of those who devise those schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property could never be comprised in the settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think that as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 11 | Briefly , if it is possible to interpret ( Ex ) Fx substitutionally as well as referentially , then it wo n't be superfluous to say that F 's actually exist , for on a substitutional interpretation they need not do so . |
| 12 | You see , I 'm sad to say that Sidney never came back . |
| 13 | The BBC reissue contained very poor transfers , but I 'm delighted to say that thanks to good engineering work by David Lennick on Music and Arts 's new disc we can now enjoy these 1935 performances in acceptable sound . |
| 14 | It would be easy to say that woman is a lesbian and then forget the personality . |
| 15 | Many seem to be content to say that fashions change and that 's that . |
| 16 | It would be unfair to say that Archdeacon Richard Treadwell had retired on the job , but he saw that there was no further preferment likely to come his way and , to be honest , he did n't greatly regret it . |
| 17 | It would not be unfair to say that God , far from being superhuman , appears to be inhuman . |
| 18 | It would be unfair to say that Cohen plays safe , but it does seem that his range of touch is not yet as comprehensive as Zimerman 's ( DG ) , nor his structural grasp as infallible as Pollini 's ( also DG ) or his poetic sensibility as individual as Brendel 's ( Philips ) . |
| 19 | I 'm glad to say that tickets for the rock and roll evening are going well although there are still a few left for late bookers |
| 20 | But it might be better to say that resemblances are all the more significant for that . |
| 21 | At that time we will be able to say that funding agencies are failing to recognize as important something that we ourselves have embraced . |
| 22 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 23 | I spent hours trying to answer that query — and I 'm pleased to say that experience has proved that we were n't entirely loony . |
| 24 | But I 'm pleased to say that Steg is n't the hair-tearer I initially feared it to be . |
| 25 | Other costs amounted to £143 ( van hire £90 , petrol £48 , stamps £5 ) , so I 'm pleased to say that 94% of the money raised went directly on the mats themselves . |
| 26 | It would be self-contradictory to say that Stalin treated all men as tools — for exercising power over men . |
| 27 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 28 | It would be fair to say that desktop publishing was undoubtedly the beginning of the revolution ; the programs are just so much easier to use on the Macintosh than on a PC . |
| 29 | It would be fair to say that JustText is a professional tool which , without an understanding of typography and design , it is impossible to fully exploit . |
| 30 | Suppose that Moriarty says that his watch broke , and from this Sherlock Holmes infers that he perpetrated the crime : although the information may have been indirectly conveyed , we should be loath to say that Moriarty communicated it . |