Example sentences of "to say [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT is something of a cliche to say that the printed word has faced growing competition from new technology , but throughout the Eighties consumer spending on books did maintain a steady growth . |
| 2 | Now take a and say , what is it that allows me to say that the individual X in this s erm cell of the film is the same individual X as in this cell of the film . |
| 3 | This is not to say that the regulating authorities should intrude into the investigation process or seek to influence or to duplicate it . |
| 4 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 5 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 6 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 7 | For now , suffice it to say that the present state of the art is such that while some areas are capable of producing meaningful output measures , it is proving difficult to develop appropriate measures in other areas . |
| 8 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 9 | It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is fair to say that the chemical industry is seen as one of the worst polluters . |
| 11 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 12 | Those necessities are sacks of flour and sacks of rice , although I am glad to say that the Iranian Government are now providing flour for every refugee within their borders , and certainly for the Shias . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is safe to say that the minimum requirements must be that the product runs on standard platforms while allowing data created within other environments to be imported and incorporated . |
| 14 | Another way of putting this would be to say that the perspectival appearance of an object at a point of view is a function of the object 's real figure , its inclination relative to the point of view , and its distance from the point of view , and is a function of nothing else . |
| 15 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 16 | It is much too politically correct to say that the one market to which it would be a real boon is the physically handicapped — in many degenerative diseases , the power of speech is one of the last to fade away . |
| 17 | This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " . |
| 18 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 19 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 20 | Is it not hypocrisy to say that the new tolerance accepts the union , but gives no security or protection to the injured party if the other suddenly decides to leave ? |
| 21 | In this respect also I regret to have to say that the stated approach of the justices was seriously flawed . |
| 22 | It would be tempting and comforting to say that the invisible hand of the market mechanism oversees such operations . |
| 23 | And even looking at that one , erm erm the south west location , one would have to say that the increased accessibility erm which will shortly be afforded by the dualling of the northern section erm of the York outer relief road , er would increase the accessibility of areas to the north east of erm er of Greater York er to West Yorkshire . |
| 24 | It is fair to say that the greatest violators of human rights across the world are terrorists , but I stressed the fact that it was important for the Government of India to be more open in dealing with the accusations . |
| 25 | I believe this situation is self-explanatory , so I wo n't bother you with details ; suffice it to say that the best engineers in Germany have convinced me that the weakest point in this chain is your body . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the best alternative to positivistic scholarship is the exclusive study of the reader 's response , such as Richards advocated in his early works . |
| 27 | While it is true to say that the best wine each year is often reserved for vintage wines , non-vintage blends are not necessarily inferior . |
| 28 | This is not to say that the twentieth century saw the total disappearance of open opposition to democracy . |
| 29 | I move Lord Mayor and in so doing to say that the controlling group can accept the amendment proposed by the Conservative Group on standing order C six A. |
| 30 | Suffice to say that the brilliant video ( co-produced by ex- NME er Sean O'Hagan ) has already been banned . |