Example sentences of "[pron] is not [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 2 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 3 | It is not correct to say that the Government Select Committee on Health has recommended a continuation of the current system of voluntary agreements on tobacco advertising as opposed to an EC ban . |
| 4 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 5 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 6 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not possible to say who did what in the ground , ’ said Mr Picton . |
| 8 | ‘ Until that investigation is complete it is not possible to say if any prison rules have been breached . ’ |
| 9 | On the basis of these observations , it is not possible to say whether or not one of these tests provides a more useful assessment tool than the other . |
| 10 | In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right . |
| 11 | Thus , it is not possible to say much about the post-redundancy experience of older women previously employed in this sector of industry . |
| 12 | So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision . |
| 13 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 14 | They can only operate as a rough guide to classifying tables of data , and it is not possible to say how they might relate to the levels in a particular graduated test scheme . |
| 15 | It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme . |
| 16 | It is not possible to say that the material as to the second audit must be irrelevant . |
| 17 | It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract . |
| 18 | It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report . |
| 19 | When viewing video , students at all levels attempt to make sense of what they see by hypothesising an event that suits a setting , or a setting that suits an event — it is not possible to say which comes first . |
| 20 | His successor was his cousin , Eadberht , the brother of Archbishop Ecgberht , but it is not possible to say whether his powerful relatives brought pressure to bear on him to resign . |
| 21 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 22 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 23 | It is not possible to say that these families were typical of all Caribbean families in London . |
| 24 | It is not possible to say whether the apparently symbolic objects had any sacral meaning , although the story of Merovech 's birth provides some reason to think that the authority of the Merovingian kings in this period may have been bolstered by pagan tradition . |
| 25 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 26 | Though Ciullo by Rossetti 's reckoning composed the poem in the 1170s , at least twenty years before Frederick Hohenstaufen came to the throne of Sicily , Pound in The Spirit of Romance juxtaposes the two names , presumably as ‘ an instigation ’ — though to what , it is not easy to say . |
| 27 | As Merton ( 1957 : 141 ) sees some corporate misbehaviour , ‘ it is not easy to say whether it is an instance of praiseworthy salesmanship or a penitentiary offence ’ . |
| 28 | This is not straightforward , It is not easy to say what the permanent " employment relationship is with which the " temporary " one is to be contrasted ? |
| 29 | However , it is not true to say that it is dangerous to apply the opposite rudder in an incipient spin . |
| 30 | Admittedly , it is not true to say that Esau is not blessed by God . |