Example sentences of "and [pron] is [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 5 | in relation to section 268 said , at p. 177c ‘ the jurisdiction is a most useful one , and I certainly do not wish to say , and it is unnecessary to say , anything which would limit its scope . ’ |
| 6 | But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean . |
| 7 | Trade , technical and professional magazines ; There are more magazines in this group than in the consumer group and it is safe to say that whatever the trade , profession or industry there will be a publication to deal with it . |
| 8 | There are exceptions and it is fair to say that over recent years a good deal more attention has been paid to these problems . |
| 9 | For many months now IBOA has been seeking details , from the Banks , of these additional staff and it is fair to say that the numbers actually employed are insignificant . |
| 10 | To be sure , these are gradations not distinctions , and it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins . |
| 11 | We can say that the instructor 's braking caused it , and it is natural to say that it was a cause of the stopping . |
| 12 | Many companies manufacture expansion cards featuring DSP chips ( for example Burr Brown , SMIS and Loughborough Sound Images ) and it is true to say that every major DSP chip is available on an expansion card . |
| 13 | Since then , however , this fundamental premise has come under attack in a variety of ways and it is true to say that ‘ evolutionism ’ is considered unacceptable by most modern Western anthropologists . |
| 14 | And it is true to say that , provided you do not suffer from any particular allergy or illness , a certain amount of food commonly considered to be ‘ bad ’ for you wo n't do you any harm at all . |
| 15 | You will have gathered from what I have said that barbel really are a true shoal fish , and it is true to say that , as is the case with all true shoal fish , they school together with fish of like size . |
| 16 | Having said that , it is possible to plant some in groups , and it is true to say that some thrive in soil which would normally be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | Program Manager , the default shell for Windows does n't suit everyone 's way of working , and it is true to say that the Windows desktop can become cluttered with myriads of overlapping windows and dialogue boxes . |
| 18 | Most of the other metopes are fragmentary , and it is hard to say if they carry out this distinction , though the little that remains of the lion suggests that it went well with the other western ones . |