Example sentences of "friend is [adj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors .
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 My hon. Friend is right to say that there has been an enormous improvement .
4 My hon. Friend is right to say that BT is one of the leading companies and has made an important contribution to our economy .
5 My hon. Friend is right to say that the ophthalmology specialty in Plymouth hospital has had excessive waiting lists .
6 Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors —
7 My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party is increasingly losing credibility with patients , the public and the NHS staff because we are seeing concrete achievements by the NHS as the reforms work out in practice .
8 My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party has been closely associated with the development of those dogmas over many years .
9 I know that that caused some concern , but , broadly speaking , my hon. Friend is right to say that standards in our schools are very good .
10 My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways .
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