Example sentences of "[adj] to say that [art] [noun] " 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 years of Unionist rule were a travesty of what democracy is , or ought to be . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 22 | Millett J commented : ‘ It would not , I think , be unfair to say that the defendants wish to embark on a fishing expedition , and that what they hope to catch is not primary evidence , but material for cross-examination ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Here it seems hard to say that the party seeking to rely on the exemption clause is contracting on his own written standard terms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I am glad to say that the Council of Mortgage Lenders has agreed to such an arrangement . |
| 29 | I 'm glad to say that the Linfield fans behave in a more respectable manner . |
| 30 | I 'm glad to say that the beans were edible , the dog did get fed and I 'm sure that by the time you read this the video will be finished , in fact I 'll probably be working on the next one . |