Example sentences of "to [be] fair to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page . |
| 2 | ‘ We do try to be fair to everybody , ’ said a Milk Marketing Board spokesman . |
| 3 | To be fair to the United Grand Lodge of England , let me first start with a denial . |
| 4 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 5 | We have Karl Popper 's criticisms of evolutionary studies ; but it is another two pages before we get his recantation , prefixed by the words ‘ to be fair to Popper ’ . |
| 6 | They should not try to be fair to other countries . |
| 7 | To be fair to yourself you should be certain that you are bringing in as much money as you should . |
| 8 | To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him . |
| 9 | To be fair to the manufacturers I can say that most of the better filter units available have very comprehensive instructions , either on the packaging , or contained inside the box as a leaflet . |
| 10 | What did reach them , over Malawi radio , was Dr Banda 's assertion that ‘ what you should know about the bishops is this : to be fair to the bishops , they have apologised . |
| 11 | To be fair to Nixon , other aides question the famous account of a drunken president in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 's The Final Days . |
| 12 | To be fair to Sir Walter , it is he who begins the commemoration of the event by building the ‘ Pleasure-House ’ ; he also imposes ‘ a cup of Stone ’ upon ‘ the living Well ’ . |
| 13 | To be fair to a Wheway , last year 's 2:23 at London is not a good indicator of current form . |
| 14 | To be fair to John he may have thought he was on an already completed route , but the absence of the first bolt , a well established sign of a ‘ projet ’ , should have been respected . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’ |
| 16 | To be fair to the scientific establishment , we have to recognize that the vast majority of outrageous new theories are rubbish from start to finish . |
| 17 | To be fair to the Tories , would Lady Whitelaw , Lady Howe or Lady Ridley have subjected themselves to the magazine make-over ? |
| 18 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 19 | Everton have cut the cost of their kit , while Wimbledon , who are refusing to jack up their prices , have said : ‘ We want to be fair to our supporters . ’ |
| 20 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 21 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And , to be fair to the boy , I possibly confused him , since when he very properly inquired as to whether or not I was a patient , I had to admit myself in some doubt on the point . ’ |
| 23 | To be fair to the scientists of the time the brain , as it appears when freshly removed from the skull , is hardly an appealing or inspiring sight ! |
| 24 | This theme — the need to be fair to ‘ the majority ’ — emerges again and again in this document 's defence of the rule , and bolsters up the most tenuous arguments . |
| 25 | The two of you — and your lawyers — will look at your financial position , at your wife 's , at how long you 've been married , whether or not she 's working ( and if she is n't , what sort of work she 'll be able to find ) and eventually come up with a sum which is supposed to be fair to both of you . |
| 26 | We have it all sorted out to be fair to the weakest person . |
| 27 | Much of the criticism was justified but to be fair to Hodge , he had been placed in an invidious position and , blinkered as he was , in some respects , he was correct in appreciating that a rebuilding of the Korean right offered the only means of preventing communist success in south Korea . |
| 28 | To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised . |
| 29 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |