Example sentences of "to say [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 2 | That is not to say that it involves no notion of a lawlike statement , or , to speak of reality rather than our language for it , no notion of lawlike connection . |
| 3 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 4 | There is at least a plausible argument to say that it does not . |
| 5 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 6 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 7 | To say that it does not matter is to say either that all the masculine imagery is not inspired , is merely human in origin , or else that , though inspired , it is quite arbitrary and unessential . |
| 8 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 9 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 10 | This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 13 | He went on to say that it seemed prudent to classify all non-accidental injuries to young children as ‘ high risk ’ cases , since 80% of all children unlawfully killed by their parents had been previously abused . |
| 14 | On the one hand , one is inclined to say that it gets the relation of theory to reality the wrong way round . |
| 15 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 16 | In Madzimbamuto v. Lardner Burke ( P.C. , 1969 ) Lord Reid said that even if Parliament acted improperly or unwisely , it was not open to the courts to say that it had acted illegally and that the resultant legislation was invalid . |
| 17 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
| 18 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 19 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 20 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 21 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 22 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 23 | That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth . |
| 24 | The government has been quick to say that it plans to continue the economic policies that have pleased businessmen and kept the country relatively well-off . |
| 25 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 26 | ‘ The lack of statistical significance calls for the exercise of caution in evaluating the study , but that is not to say that it disqualifies the study from consideration , ’ said Morling . |
| 27 | On second thoughts , it might be better to say that it goes without saying that linguistic communication is a matter of conveying ideas or thoughts . |
| 28 | As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed . |
| 29 | If asked , they will be quite ready to say that it is grossly indecent , but far less ready to say that it tends to deprave or corrupt . |
| 30 | It would be more accurate to say that it shows the decline of community and public practices . |