Example sentences of "to say that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad ( and relieved ) to say that no-one has ( so far ) written again to tell me I 'm an idiot or that my advice was useless . |
| 2 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 3 | To say that it is a duty to do it is to say that its consequences would be better than those which would ensue from any alternative . |
| 4 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 5 | To say that its reviews were mixed is to understate the case — the cons far outweighed the pros . |
| 6 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 7 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 8 | It is possible to say that their pas de deux are completely uninhibited . |
| 9 | When they need food , they will often pay for it in gold or hard currency , although villagers rarely admit this to the local authorities , preferring to say that their rice was stolen . |
| 10 | Some will weigh the evidence one way and some will weigh it another , but no one , having made a decision to believe in God , will be able to say that their assessment can not change as the argument proceeds . |
| 11 | Starving people in the sub-Sahara can not afford much quality , though it is fair to say that their problems are more political than strictly agricultural . |
| 12 | They may wish to say that their religion no longer needs a geocentric universe , a physical location for heaven and hell , a personal devil , or even divine intervention in the physical world . |
| 13 | Is it also true to say that their guess is often no better than your own ? |
| 14 | She was just on the point of leaving for London when her brother phoned to say that their mother was dying . |
| 15 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 16 | That is to say that their premium income has been insufficient to meet claims and the difference has therefore had to be met from investment income . |
| 17 | People that you knew , you know , getting wires and that to say that their menfolk had either been killed or were missing or some like that . |
| 18 | If , however , they want to say that their property should be in the band below , it will be a simple matter of testing it on appeal . |
| 19 | Those responsible for the access funds at Dundee university wrote to me to say that their funds had run out even before the summer recess had begun . |
| 20 | Martin Smith , of Brighton Kemptown , protested : ‘ We want a Labour government , but that does not mean to say that we are going to meekly accept inadequate policies and an economic policy that is doomed to failure . ’ |
| 21 | I do not want to say that we are going to get rid of everyone , only those who are our enemies . |
| 22 | ‘ This is a very serious question about the methods of funding the expansion of higher education and to say that we are seriously interested in the proposal that fees should be charged at full cost is not going to increase or widen access . |
| 23 | It is sufficient to say that we are satisfied that no such relationship can be established . |
| 24 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 25 | In our January issue , we omitted to say that we could not have taken the photographs of readers in all the colours of the rainbow without the cooperation of Debenhams in Western Road Brighton . |
| 26 | I hope that the reconciliation achieved by the cross will provide the basis for us all to say that we have no grounds for making fresh divisions which make a witness to a needy world more difficult than it is already . |
| 27 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 29 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 30 | ‘ But I have to say that we loved every minute of it . ’ |