Example sentences of "be to say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time she had been here had been to say good-bye to her great-aunt before she went off to America . |
| 2 | I know that plans are well advanced throughout the country for a massive collecting effort next year and I want to wish all of you involved all the very best in your efforts as we approach these days , that 's to say donation days , in the coming year . |
| 3 | That 's to say water ? |
| 4 | ‘ And who 's to say Sir Thomas did n't eat it instead ? ’ impressing even himself by his quick-witted thinking . |
| 5 | Such claims about our ordinary beliefs are commonly depended on in asserting Free Will , which is to say indeterminist accounts of decision and action . |
| 6 | First of all , we can note that there is nowadays an increasing emphasis on the idea of ‘ life-long education ’ — that is to say education that continues through the whole of adulthood . |
| 7 | That is to say I deny that there could be a particular revelation of God in any one age , which thenceforth becomes normative for all others . |
| 8 | That is to say I have scrapped it . |
| 9 | For the delicate , mild sunshine was indicated , that is to say winters on the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | The major problem inland probably that affects general public is mass movement , that is to say where erm slopes en masse erm fail , that is to say sections of slope simply slip or move en bloc down erm the hillsides , and there are a , a number of occurrences where roads in particular have been cut or damaged erm in this way . |
| 11 | The Twelve Chambers of the Blameless and the Praiseless which is to say fools and idiots , thought Fergus caustically . |
| 12 | Anyone who thinks that there must be , and that there must be a process of encoding a thought into a form of words , says so in spite of , and not because of , his experience of what it is to say things . |
| 13 | The answer today to the question whether objects which were originally chattels have become fixtures , that is to say part of the freehold , depends upon the application of two tests : ( 1 ) the method and degree of annexation ; ( 2 ) the object and purpose of the annexation . |
| 14 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 15 | Perhaps the slow movement misses out on exploratory shadings , but this is still a performance that can hold its own beside the finest currently available — which is to say Mintz and Bronfman on DG . |
| 16 | The Warsaw Convention , with all its amendments , protocols and variations , seeks to limit the liability of international air carriers to a specific sum of money while acknowledging the air carrier ( airline ) as the only party liable ; that is to say aircraft manufacturers , component manufacturers , pilots , engineers , air traffic controllers and governments who operate airports and navigation services are excluded from all liability unless negligence can be proved . |
| 17 | And I will move from the chair to recommend the county council , erm , as shown on page three , that is to say paragraphs little one , little two , little three , little four and little five with the amended band figures . |
| 18 | Einstein next considered the implications of the equivalence principle for motion in free fall , that is to say motion under gravitational forces alone . |
| 19 | We move to redundancies , well there you will see that er er newspapers that is to say Westminster Press and Camco have borne the brunt er and I will say no more other than that the reduction in payroll year-on-year will be thirty million pounds . |
| 20 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 21 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 22 | Another good way is to say grace before meals , which is another way of appreciating what we are about to consume . |
| 23 | If there was any ambiguity , that is to say implications which might escape the first or indeed many subsequent readings , they were not the ones which would have made themselves more readily apparent if some form of graphic representation had preserved the tone of voice , the facial expressions or the hand movements of their author . |
| 24 | Who is to say Norway wo n't do the same ? |
| 25 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 26 | Each of the three hypotheses making up the theory of determinism to be expounded in the first part of this book has to do with mental events , which is to say events within consciousness . |
| 27 | What if I was to say inauguration |
| 28 | It was , as she was to say time and again , ‘ a true congregation of hearts and minds ’ . |
| 29 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |