Example sentences of "[adj] to say that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 2 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to say that the Muftilik was created simply in imitation of either ; but either and , in view of the period , more likely the former-may have been imitated to answer the need for a similar office in the Ottoman state . |
| 4 | → I 'm afraid to say that the pickup is probably duff and will need attention by your local guitar repairer , or a pickup rewinding specialist . |
| 5 | Though he was careful to say that the solution was not to ‘ throw money at problems ’ , Clinton is recycling such old Great Society approaches as job-training , education programmes and the like , all part of the package that enabled the Democrats in the sixties to shirk what the party advocated in 1946 , namely a full employment act . |
| 6 | I do not think that even the right hon. Gentleman would be prepared to say that every programme remains the same , irrespective of costs . |
| 7 | Without them , it is impossible to say that a country has a constitution in the current international sense of the word . |
| 8 | In our judgment it is impossible to say that the barrister acted unreasonably . |
| 9 | It was impossible to say that the order made by the justices had any foundation in law and they had erred in principle in making it ; MacDougall v. Knight [ 1889 ] A.C. 194 , Scott v. Scott [ 1913 ] A.C.417 , Att. -Gen. v. Leveller Magazine Ltd . |
| 10 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 11 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 12 | It 's easy to say that the smashing of a guitar is a loss to some potential player or other , but very few guitars are smashed compared with , say , the thousands of great instruments that are stored away in collections , in bank vaults etc . |
| 13 | It is too easy to say that the Opposition are just scaremongering and making it all up , and it will not be as bad as we fear . |
| 14 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 15 | Easy to say that the Movement was never more than a journalistic invention — the more so since its principals were ( almost certainly ) never together in one room . |
| 16 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 17 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 18 | For example , they are the most likely to say that the balance of power is now tipped too much in favour of women and that women with young children should n't work . |
| 19 | It would be unfair to say that the landscape was featureless geology has provided some outstanding , literally outstanding , items of topography , yet they are far flung and , in general , the landscape components are not keen to assemble themselves into the kind of artistic compositions we have grown used to . |
| 20 | Here it seems hard to say that the party seeking to rely on the exemption clause is contracting on his own written standard terms . |
| 21 | It is perfectly natural to say that the candle is alight or the house is on fire when strictly speaking only a part of it is . |
| 22 | With no revenue , many magazines cut down on their pages but we are glad to say that the Ski Club of Great Britain , who publish Ski survey backed us to produce the usual number of editorial pages , so we could fit in all the information you need as committed skiers . |
| 23 | Despite the unremitting hostility of the Opposition Front-Bench team , I am glad to say that the majority group on the present Liverpool city council , in contrast to its predecessor , is showing interest in a housing action trust and my Department is discussing the matter with it . |
| 24 | I am glad to say that the Council of Mortgage Lenders has agreed to such an arrangement . |
| 25 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 26 | Thus , when a child who calls a stool ‘ chair ’ is corrected and introduced to its more accurate name and subsequently uses the term ‘ stool ’ , it would be reasonable to say that the child had learned a new word . |
| 27 | Whatever the disagreements , it seems reasonable to say that the period circa 1890–1914 witnessed ‘ an unprecedented advance of machine technique and of mechanisation generally and automatism in particular ’ . |
| 28 | As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed . |
| 29 | Terry Ellis , racing director at SIS , answered these points for me yesterday , commenting : ‘ First of all it is factually incorrect to say that the turnover is not subject to levy . |
| 30 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |