Example sentences of "to say that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is not to say that no management is possible , and that the idea is best dropped . |
| 2 | Dr. Whittaker had to say that no doctors in Calderdale had applied to become fund holders in either the second or third wave . |
| 3 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 4 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 5 | I can not take the matter any further at this stage , other than to say that no request has been received , as yet , for a statement to be made . |
| 6 | It is true to say that no composer would write music hard enough for him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not an exaggeration to say that no woman will be safe once he is out of prison . |
| 9 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 10 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 11 | In what sense is it true to say that a watch or an airliner or an earwig or a person is complex , but the moon is simple ? |
| 12 | So when are you going to say that a man 's request to kill him , which is what his request was , is a reasonable request ? |
| 13 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 14 | To say that a man frequents a particular address has no defamatory meaning to ordinary readers — unless they know that the address is a brothel . |
| 15 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 16 | 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 ’ |
| 17 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making . |
| 19 | And well , it 's not nice to say that a girl is fat these days , but she was all ample proportioned we 'll put it like that . |
| 20 | This is not to say that a management buy-out is not arm 's length in most respects . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I should also be under continuing pressure to say that a Committee was considering a particular subject ( and often it would be a GEN group ) ; and there would be questions about when Committees were meeting , the work they were doing , whether particular Ministers are on them , the details of under-pinning Official Committees , etc . |
| 23 | Later during that same year , my father came home to say that a friend had a bike for sale . |
| 24 | But when all this is fully recognised yet the law , in some circumstances , reserves a right to say that a contract is in restraint of trade and that to be enforceable it must pass a test of reasonableness . |
| 25 | Such a claim would clearly be limited to the grammatical aspect of style , and even here , to say that a text has a " neutral style " is to mislead : the choice of expressing one 's sense in elemental , disconnected sentences has its stylistic value as much as any other choice ( see 7.4.2 . ) . |
| 26 | Without them , it is impossible to say that a country has a constitution in the current international sense of the word . |
| 27 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 28 | This is not to say that a preference for one style or the other is inappropriate ; it is to recognise that both are still in their infancy and neither one markedly superior to the other in all respects . |
| 29 | Essentially , we want to say that a sentence is an abstract theoretical entity defined within a theory of grammar , while an utterance is the issuance of a sentence , a sentence-analogue , or sentence-fragment , in an actual context . |
| 30 | Similarly , to say that a fare was the " correct fare " might have deceived the foreigner into thinking that the fare was an official one . |