Example sentences of "to say that [adj] [noun pl] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic . |
| 3 | It is fair to say that international organizations are much more sensitive to this accusation than formerly . |
| 4 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |
| 5 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 6 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 7 | Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere . |
| 8 | It is fair to say that first impressions are very encouraging . |
| 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 . |
| 10 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |
| 11 | And while it 's true to say that some cross-dressers are gay , not all gays , by any means , are transvestites . |
| 12 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 13 | That challenges have been made to the liberal humanist tradition by Marxists , structuralists , deconstructionists , feminists and others is not , however , to say that these challenges are widely accepted or even taught . |
| 14 | Why do we have to say that these thoughts are like mental actions ? |
| 15 | It would be fair to say that these tests are as details , if not more so , than those for human food . |
| 16 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 17 | 1820 Alter all the labour of " obtaining pint and choppin standard measure out of Stirling castle , which have been proven & marked by the Dean of Guild of Stirling as correct , some of members of this meeting ventured to say that these jugs are composed of tin , and easily dimpled , whereas they are composed of the strongest sheet copper tinned within to prevent corrosion . |
| 18 | This is not to say that these features are not present within more clay-rich or carbonate mud-rich sediments . |
| 19 | The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument . |
| 20 | Simply to say that postnominal attributives are reduced relatives gives an answer to neither of our questions ( p. 43 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |