Example sentences of "[be] to say [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 2 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 3 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 4 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A second argument which Gordon might use would be to say that the content of the bracket constituting the term furnished tenancy or employee or assault should , itself , be for the relative opinion of the tribunal . |
| 8 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 9 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 10 | It would be churlish if I or anyone else were to say that the area should not receive whatever funds are needed to redevelop it . |
| 11 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 12 | They were in power but I mean who 's to say that the pe there 's not gon na be a civil war and they 'll be thrown out of power . |
| 13 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 14 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 15 | In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ? |
| 16 | The mistake is to say that a ‘ directing mind ’ accused is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own dishonest taking of the company 's property . |
| 17 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 18 | Not that this is to say that no industry should be owned by the State , not even when , for example , a service to be provided is a natural monopoly ; and the presumption is , therefore , that those who provide it should be accountable to users who can not register dissatisfaction by taking their custom elsewhere , rather than to private owners whose interest is to exploit the monopoly . |
| 19 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 20 | That is to say that every individual lives according to a highly structured set of personal obligations which he or she must continually fulfil . |
| 21 | A common feminist response is to say that the whole idea of ‘ literary standards ’ , even ‘ standards ’ as such , is a form of male domination . |
| 22 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 23 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |
| 24 | A third interpretation is to say that the strategy has not been implemented and therefore the government is not fully responsible for the outcome . |
| 25 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 26 | Another way of describing lack of spontaneity is to say that the participant is ‘ holding back ’ , not ‘ letting himself go ’ , not ‘ giving himself ’ to the situation . |
| 27 | 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 ’ ? |
| 28 | To say that God is present in the world , they would argue , is to say that the world has existence . |
| 29 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
| 30 | The colloquialism , in fact , is to say that the auditor is appointed by the shareholders . |