Example sentences of "[be] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to say with the crowd , away with him ! |
| 2 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 3 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 4 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 5 | It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting . |
| 6 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 7 | By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class . |
| 8 | As Mario was to say at the time , though the 78 was obviously a ‘ fantastic ’ car in concept , it was going to take a while to work all the bugs out of it : the braking system was twitchy , the steering too flexible and it was , due to its side-pods , slow on the straights . |