Example sentences of "to say that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is much more nearly true to say that no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms .
2 No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions .
3 And we might still be doubtful of the existence of causally effective mathematical facts , without wishing to say that no mathematical beliefs can therefore be justified .
4 That is to say that every individual lives according to a highly structured set of personal obligations which he or she must continually fulfil .
5 This is not to say that the regulating authorities should intrude into the investigation process or seek to influence or to duplicate it .
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 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 .
8 This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis .
12 So it is not implausible for critics to say that the solid-state detectors are unreliable and somehow bring about a sharp distortion in the spectra .
13 It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge .
14 For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative .
15 However it is also fair to say that the professional leaders sometimes expected too much from the change ; it is no slur on an honourable movement within the American profession that its initial success did not immediately bring the golden age .
16 It is , however , fair to say that the possible restrictions proposed in the consultation paper on a firm 's provision of specialist valuations ( brand valuations , for instance ) to audit clients provide a clear illustration of the approach to ethics the Institutes must maintain .
17 But again , that is not to say that the Christian Socialists had necessarily got their priorities wrong , nor that the French emphasis was wholly misplaced .
18 It would be exaggerating to say that the basic capabilities of the electronic spreadsheet have reached the point where they ca n't be improved on .
19 Suffice to say that the main intermediaries active in the eurobond market are commercial banks , investment banks and securities houses .
20 This is not to say that the Mexican unions are likely to become revolutionary tools to be used against a capitalist state , but nor are they conservative in supporting the status quo .
21 It is probably true to say that the likely arrangements for assessment and recording of pupils ' achievement have provoked more concern among the teaching profession than almost any other area of the National Curriculum .
22 It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen .
23 Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ?
24 Now the pains were returning but 4 weeks after Arg Nit LM2 she was able to say that the digestive symptoms had been negligible .
25 Which is not to say that the nuclear powers should simply bang away at will .
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