Example sentences of "[adj] to say that [adj] [noun pl] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 2 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 3 | It is ridiculous to say that all males are basically evil while females are n't , and in view of that , girls would also have degenerated on the island into cruelty . |
| 4 | It is fair to say that international organizations are much more sensitive to this accusation than formerly . |
| 5 | It is fair to say that first impressions are very encouraging . |
| 6 | It would be fair to say that these tests are as details , if not more so , than those for human food . |
| 7 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 8 | And while it 's true to say that some cross-dressers are gay , not all gays , by any means , are transvestites . |
| 9 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |