Example sentences of "to say [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 2 | there are but I mean it 's it 's silly for people to say once a man is sexually aroused it 's quite difficult to stop is n't it ? |
| 3 | Suffice to say that no one working in Hollywood can match him . |
| 4 | The Congregational historian , Albert Peel , wrote that ‘ it is probably true to say that no one did more to raise the standard of worship in Nonconformist churches ’ than he . |
| 5 | For them it may be right to say that no conceivable circumstance in their lives would change the nature of their convictions . |
| 6 | But this is not to say that no management is possible , and that the idea is best dropped . |
| 7 | It is true to say that no composer would write music hard enough for him . |
| 8 | It is not an exaggeration to say that no woman will be safe once he is out of prison . |
| 9 | This is not to say that no one who has left China since 1980 has had dissident tendencies , but they would probably keep these concealed before being allowed out . |
| 10 | It was an unjust war if ever there was one ; but it is probably true to say that no one attempted to discriminate morally between the wars of secular lords at this period unless they affected the interests of the Church . |
| 11 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 12 | for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible . |
| 13 | Not that this is to say that no industry should be owned by the State , not even when , for example , a service to be provided is a natural monopoly ; and the presumption is , therefore , that those who provide it should be accountable to users who can not register dissatisfaction by taking their custom elsewhere , rather than to private owners whose interest is to exploit the monopoly . |
| 14 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 15 | And we might still be doubtful of the existence of causally effective mathematical facts , without wishing to say that no mathematical beliefs can therefore be justified . |
| 16 | At approximately 4.40 p.m. the clerk to the court returned to say that no other justice was available . |
| 17 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 18 | It is much more nearly true to say that no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms . |
| 19 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 20 | Suffice it to say that no one owns neighbourhood watch schemes , except those who belong to them and who have helped to make them a success . |
| 21 | Dr. Whittaker had to say that no doctors in Calderdale had applied to become fund holders in either the second or third wave . |
| 22 | I can not take the matter any further at this stage , other than to say that no request has been received , as yet , for a statement to be made . |
| 23 | Speaking earlier at the Asian Institute of Technology , WWF President Prince Philip said : " Thailand ratified the Convention in 1963 , but I 'm sorry to have to say that no enabling legislation has so far been enacted " . |
| 24 | So it would be futile to say that no more than three or four , or at the very most five , of these categories were dealt with during the whole of the period of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century to say that a picture was poetic was a common term of praise . |
| 26 | It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs . |
| 27 | If the Saatchi Collection were to be dispersed , it is true to say that a whole era of international art would be effectively lost to the nation . |
| 28 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 29 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 30 | The widely differing behaviour of EC members has prompted Britain 's prime minister , John Major , to say that a common foreign policy must go beyond mere words and extend to action , and that the Community is clearly not yet ready for that . |