Example sentences of "[pron] is [to-vb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea . |
| 2 | Which is to say that directions are better than sentences . |
| 3 | None of which is to say that Galway 's anguish is not fully justified . |
| 4 | To remedy this , he suggests that arts education must be shown to be " vocational " , which is to say that arts should be shown to provide education for living , acting , doing , knowing , thinking , and enjoying . |
| 5 | Who is to say that Yeats and Pound were wrong ? |
| 6 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |
| 7 | This is not to deny that child abuse is a ‘ factual ’ phenomenon or thing , it is to argue that facts only take the form they do because they are interpreted within given contexts of meaning . |
| 8 | Another way of putting it is to say that RE has to offer feasible road-maps enabling pupils to chart their own way around the difficult country of religion with its complexity and ambiguity . |
| 9 | Rather , it is to say that Gusfield 's theory may continue to have explanatory power , particularly with regard to the initial motivation of participants in such a movement , and that where Wallis ' work is important is in pointing to the cultural concerns that may also underpin the rise of specific moral entrepreneurial groups . |
| 10 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 11 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 12 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 13 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 14 | How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself . |
| 15 | It is to show that Britain does not really have a constitution at all , merely a system of government , even if some parts of it are more important to our democratic order than others or are treated ( perhaps : were treated until Mrs Thatcher 's time ) with greater veneration . |
| 16 | How solemn it is to believe that Jesus is the son of God , the saviour of the world , and yet to reject him . |
| 17 | The shock for an innocent like me is to discover that Moses ' conversations with God resemble a policeman negotiating with a psychopath brandishing a nuclear weapon and making wild demands . |
| 18 | To ask them is to assume that Mr Jones next door holds the same opinions and follows the same practices as Mr Smith across the road . |
| 19 | Note 1.2.3 One other thing 1.2.2 does for us is to prove that Z can contain only one subset N with the properties listed in axiom P. ( If M is a subset of Z satisfying P then either 1 or -1 belongs to M. It follows from 1.2.2 that unc and then from axiom P(ii) that , in any case , 1 ε M. Similarly 1 ε N and hence |