Example sentences of "to say that only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that only poetry with ‘ positive attitudes to life ’ is acceptable , since anyone who has thought about the representation of evil in literature , whether in satire or tragedy or in the novel , will know that an apparently negative attitude can be in fact profoundly positive . |
| 2 | She says it 's wrong to say that only Mrs Maxwell lost her pension . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 4 | We are left with the unspecific practical objection , the objection that is as much to say that only seeing is believing . |
| 5 | I should , I should warn you that it 's best to say that only witnesses perhaps have problems with their sight , not that they are senile . |