Example sentences of "is to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |
| 2 | A common feminist response is to say that the whole idea of ‘ literary standards ’ , even ‘ standards ’ as such , is a form of male domination . |
| 3 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 4 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |
| 5 | Who is to say that Yeats and Pound were wrong ? |
| 6 | One is to say that substantial expansion is simply not possible , given planned expenditure levels . |
| 7 | One is to say that there are subtle differences which explain alleged inconsistencies , as for example between banning experiments altogether or after 14 days yet allowing later abortions . |
| 8 | A third interpretation is to say that the strategy has not been implemented and therefore the government is not fully responsible for the outcome . |
| 9 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 10 | The narrowest position is to say that rape is committed only where D threatens violence or knows that V is in fear of violence , and that any other threat must fall within the lesser offence of procuring sex by threats . |
| 11 | Another way of describing lack of spontaneity is to say that the participant is ‘ holding back ’ , not ‘ letting himself go ’ , not ‘ giving himself ’ to the situation . |
| 12 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 13 | To say that God is present in the world , they would argue , is to say that the world has existence . |
| 14 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 15 | Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs . |
| 16 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 17 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 18 | Another way of analysing the doctor 's duty is to say that , when a patient is near death , a doctor is not obliged to embark upon or continue heroic treatment which has no prospect of benefiting the patient . |
| 19 | That is to say that our attitudes are strongly influenced by others : people we mix with , television and radio , papers , magazines and books . |
| 20 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 21 | To say that X causes Y is to say that , if X changes , it will produce a change in Y . |
| 22 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 23 | Another way of stating this thesis is to say that psychological life is essentially metaphorical in character . |
| 24 | That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption . |
| 25 | The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal . |
| 26 | To answer in the negative is to say that older children will not benefit from the stunning picture , the arresting image , or the picture that illuminates a story , and that provides a range of visual possibilities . |
| 27 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
| 28 | One idea for the party is to say that you are going to have a visit from a friendly ghost and , if the children see it , to let you know . |
| 29 | Who is to say that they are wrong , if it helps them to live out the rest of their lives in a happier frame of mind ? |
| 30 | It is to say that mental disengagement from the region and its ‘ troubles ’ is hardly the way to achieve an historic compromise there . |