Example sentences of "fair [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assumption is not borne out by any evidence — after all , the dolphins have no perceivable technology — but it is fair to guess that at least some intelligent species will develop an advanced technology . |
| 2 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 3 | Colleges should be doing to meet the needs of Roman Catholic schools , notwithstanding the harsh economic regime they share with the rest of higher education , it seems fair to conclude that without them the Roman Catholic educational sector would be very much the poorer . |
| 4 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 5 | There are exceptions and it is fair to say that over recent years a good deal more attention has been paid to these problems . |
| 6 | It is fair to say that during the day and a half of discussions in June 1993 alarm was expressed at the difficulties posed by the future of the historian 's resource . |
| 7 | However , it is fair to say that at local education authority level there is more evidence of its impact on change . |
| 8 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 9 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 10 | However , it is fair to say that despite these distinctive efforts , and one reason why such people are now regarded as classical contributors , for most within the early social survey tradition the divide seemed unbridgeable or irrelevant . |
| 11 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 12 | At the same time it seems fair to say that until recently , writing about Proust , particularly perhaps in England , but in France , too , has concentrated too much and too exclusively on the social element in the dualism , has concentrated too much , if you like , on the nose and the beard . |
| 13 | It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it seems fair to say that by the 1530s social grievances were again being voiced to an extent that they had not been in the previous century . |
| 15 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 16 | However , it would seem fair to say that in a western liberal democracy with a market based economy , society has a legitimate interest in protecting the market from conduct which is perceived to be an abuse of normal practice in that market . |
| 17 | I think it is fair to say that in practical terms you are likely to get substantial life out of the tool before the original battery is spent , perhaps several years . |
| 18 | it is fair to say that in the case of er in the case of Alwyn , erm because of the special circumstances where we did n't actually use a clerk of works ever on that job |
| 19 | As a general model , then , it might be fair to say that in early capitalism the bourgeoisie is very often on the side of the development of civil society , and in later capitalism it is often opposed to such development . |
| 20 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |