Example sentences of "[adj] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to us quite unrealistic to say that he would have felt insulted . |
| 2 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , none of the superpowers have been willing to say that they would not actually use these weapons in a second nuclear strike , on the grounds that for the deterrent to be credible the other side has to be convinced that a first nuclear strike would result in nuclear retaliation . |
| 4 | I do not know any ( secondary ) school teachers who , in private , are not willing to say that they are substantially dissatisfied with the job that schools are doing , for at least a substantial proportion of pupils . |
| 5 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 6 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 7 | We can now ask how far it is sensible to say that genes ‘ program ’ or ‘ control ’ development . |
| 8 | Is not it more sensible to say that we have responsible people out there with whom we have developed partnerships ? |
| 9 | It is perfectly proper to say that , as a natural resource , gas is a state asset and to allow as much competition as possible in its exploitation . |
| 10 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 11 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 12 | But he is wrong to say that it is a gloss — especially as a rabbinic scholium ! — on the Sabbath service only , and to hang ( as he does ) all his review from it . |
| 13 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |
| 14 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 15 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
| 16 | If this is so , Quine is wrong to say that one can not be an empiricist in one 's theory of meaning unless one accepts his brand of verificationism , centred on MP . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is also wrong to say that ‘ Esperanto has n't made it anywhere yet ’ . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman was wrong to say that we had failed to consult on our proposals for the council tax . |
| 20 | The employment White Paper was published under a coalition dominated by Conservatives and Labour , but it was not the result of discussion within each party , and although leading politicians on both sides endorsed its policy it would be wrong to say that it reflected the considered view of either party . |
| 21 | So you 're saying that the treasurer was wrong to say that er in funding |
| 22 | She says it 's wrong to say that only Mrs Maxwell lost her pension . |
| 23 | A well-known example is ‘ controversy ’ , which is pronounced by some speakers as and by others as ; it would be quite wrong to say that one version was correct and one incorrect . |
| 24 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Consequently , it is wrong to say that it has a grammatical function . |
| 27 | In his view , it is fallacious to say that Unix costs less per number of users than mainframes because no-one has ever put a large number of users on Unix boxes . |
| 28 | For Gordon it is fallacious to say that if a tribunal blunders in its estimation of the factors involved in a subject-matter properly before it and thereby misconceives the questions that it should consider , that it thereby exceeds its jurisdiction . |
| 29 | Briefly , if it is possible to interpret ( Ex ) Fx substitutionally as well as referentially , then it wo n't be superfluous to say that F 's actually exist , for on a substitutional interpretation they need not do so . |
| 30 | It is quite another to say that an absence of a power of remit vested in the House is an insuperable barrier to the Court of Appeal exercising its own jurisdiction to relist . |