Example sentences of "say that only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 2 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 3 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 4 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 5 | It is sometimes said that only the Exodus complaint stories and the one in Numbers 20 , which we will come to in a moment , deal with matters of life and death . |
| 6 | Mr Rifkind , who was in Darlington last night for a meeting of the Conservative Association , has said that only the Conservative party has a proper strategy for improvements to Britain 's roads . |
| 7 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 8 | Labour 's spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , said that only a programme of assistance to Vietnam would improve the lives of the people there and encourage those who have already left to return . |
| 9 | It was rightfully hers , of course ; but tradition said that only a man could rule the Wyrmberg . |
| 10 | The minister said that only a small amount of radioactive material had escaped . |
| 11 | Piliso said that only the National Party rejected the proposal for a constituent assembly , and that the government feared the participation of the masses in deciding the constitution of a future South Africa . |
| 12 | Quoting the 1989 Constitution , Aikhomu said that only the future president had the authority to proclaim the holding of the first session of the legislature . |
| 13 | ‘ Brother , you said that only the corpses of beggars and strangers have been stolen ? ’ |
| 14 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |
| 15 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 16 | However , people were heard to say that only the Führer himself now believed in a miracle . |