Example sentences of "be to say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 2 | Erm my recommendation at that price would be to say to you , do n't buy , not at four thousand pounds , when your rent is one hundred pounds a year . |
| 3 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 4 | Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both |
| 5 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 6 | Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable . |
| 7 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 8 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 9 | It 's to say with the crowd , away with him ! |
| 10 | Whatever else there is to say about the States , it exists to be driven in ; a road runner 's playground littered with the seductive comforts of the drive-in-drive-out lifestyle . |
| 11 | Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers . |
| 12 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |
| 13 | Between 1931 and 1939 — that is to say between the ages of 26 and 34 — Nizan published two polemical essays , Aden Arabie ( 1931 ) and Les Chiens de garde ( 1932 ) , three novels , Antoine Bloye ( 1933 ) , Le Cheval de Troie ( 1935 ) and La Conspiration ( 1938 ) , one historical text , Chronique de septembre ( 1939 ) , an adaptation of a Greek anti-war play by Aristophanes , Les Acharniens ( 1937 ) , an edition of Greek materialist philosophy , Les Materialistes de l'antiquite ( 1938 ) , an edition of Marx , Morceaux choisis de Marx ( 1934 ) , and two translations of extensive and important contemporary texts on America and the Soviet Union , L'Amerique tragique ( 1933 ) by T. Dreiser , and Les Soviets dans les affaires mondiales ( 1933 ) by L. Fischer . |
| 14 | Christians were baptized into ‘ Christ ’ , not into ‘ Jesus ’ , that is to say into a relationship to Jesus as God , not into the human Jesus . |
| 15 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 17 | They beat Middlesbrough three two er three one rather , three one on their own ground in the first round er of the first leg that is to say of the er four matches in this particular round of the competition . |
| 18 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 19 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 20 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 21 | Most of the marks will be awarded for demonstrating more sophisticated skills , that is to say for analysis , judgement , interpretation and assessment of knowledge . |
| 22 | But to say that there is no recovery … is to say to the terrorists : ‘ Here , you can have our lives as well ’ . |
| 23 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 24 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 25 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 26 | On the other hand , we do not mean to deny that such intelligence may act according to law ( that is to say on a preconceived and definite plan ) . |
| 27 | Locally , that is to say on a scale small compared with the radius of curvature r of the surface . |
| 28 | Who is to say with any show of reason whether to place history or , say , political philosophy in one category or the other ? |
| 29 | Sir Thomas remonstrated with him , as was his duty , reminding him of his high calling and how he will be required , in accordance with royal custom , to make a match advantageous to the realm — that is to say with a foreign princess . ’ |
| 30 | The notion of thinking , as soon as it appears , becomes confused with that of voice , that is to say with words , either spoken or heard . ’ |