Example sentences of "say is that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 2 | The most you should say is that on these facts there is evidence of negligence ( or unreasonableness ) , and that a finding to that effect would clearly be right ( or conversely ) . |
| 3 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 4 | The only thing I can say is that at least my mistakes are genuine . |
| 5 | I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics . |
| 6 | The worst one can fairly say is that in some scenes — the Andúril ones , the Field of Cormallen , the eagle 's song — Tolkien under-estimated his audience 's resistance and reached too hastily for the sublime or the impressive . |
| 7 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 8 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 9 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |