Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is only fair to say that this marks a period of ‘ boom ’ in house prices . |
| 2 | It is only fair to say that the instruction given to children was excellent , almost the best they ever had and the multi-lingual abilities of the instructors made understanding very easy . |
| 3 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 4 | It is perhaps trite to say that the educational policy is only as good as its actual implementation in the classroom , but it is a point overlooked in the search for a panacea in deaf education . |
| 5 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 6 | Whilst the 1985 Act obliges us to ‘ afford access to our lands for the purposes of knowledge and enjoyment ’ , it is perhaps true to say that most visitors , possibly as many as 95% , make use of the Gardens as an amenity , and that we may have failed to emphasise the ‘ knowledge ’ goal . |
| 7 | It is perhaps fair to say that while the balances are maintained , we are on the whole more conscious of evil as an objective power and of good as a subjective impulse ; Mordor and ‘ the Shadow ’ are nearer and more visible than the Valar or ‘ luck ’ . |
| 8 | The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas . |
| 9 | An environmental change can ease this : it is much easier to say that you do n't have any sweets in the house than to say ‘ no ’ to a child who knows that they are in the cupboard . |
| 10 | Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture . |
| 11 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 12 | Fourthly it is generally true to say that fewer people are required to operate such systems and those employed are normally kept outside the main storage area . |
| 13 | It is generally true to say that if the area is predominantly rural then the geographical extent of the restriction can sometimes be greater than if an urban area is under consideration . |
| 14 | As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed . |
| 15 | It is not possible to say that the material as to the second audit must be irrelevant . |
| 16 | It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract . |
| 17 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 18 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 19 | It is not possible to say that these families were typical of all Caribbean families in London . |
| 20 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 21 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 22 | It is not correct to say that the Government Select Committee on Health has recommended a continuation of the current system of voluntary agreements on tobacco advertising as opposed to an EC ban . |
| 23 | However , it is not true to say that it is dangerous to apply the opposite rudder in an incipient spin . |
| 24 | Admittedly , it is not true to say that Esau is not blessed by God . |
| 25 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
| 26 | It is not true to say that anything is justified in a good cause : vulgarity , exhibitionism and ugliness are things to be avoided . |
| 27 | But it is not true to say that a legacy or institution made in terms other than these was unquestionably void . |
| 28 | So , although it is not true to say that all tortoiseshell cats are females , it is true to say that they are all feminine — even the rare males . |
| 29 | While political organization among lesbians and gays may be taking a low profile , it is not true to say that the clocks have been turned back . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not true to say that because we are not meeting EC directives absolutely that the water is poisoned , ’ said Mr Byatt . |