Example sentences of "to state [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 2 | Sometimes this is difficult to state so that , for example , although the common law did refer to the owner being under an obligation to hire out goods of a reasonable fitness , the level of care associated with this obligation was uncertain , being mainly the product of dictum rather than decision . |
| 3 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 4 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 5 | Appearing calm and good humoured , he once again denied that Flowers had been his lover , but refused to state unequivocally that he had never committed adultery . |
| 6 | As you thought , Mrs. Jack has not been able to state openly that a parent can withdraw a child if they so wish as it would be seen , like Tayside , to undermine ‘ the consensual approach ’ . |
| 7 | But , equally , Labour has to state clearly that the productive economy is more important that monetary . |
| 8 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 9 | I wish to state however that there were two areas in his evidence which I found myself totally unable to accept . |
| 10 | And whilst it is impossible to state categorically that heart disease can be caused by eating too much fat , in recent investigations it was observed that among the groups of people who consumed high amounts of fat the incidence of heart attack was far higher than among those who followed a low fat diet . |
| 11 | 1.5 Comparison of motor types The system designer is faced with a choice between hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors and his decision is inevitably influenced by the application ; it is not possible to state categorically that one type is " better " in all situations . |
| 12 | DrW : In this case , I am prepared to state categorically that her condition was caused by lack of food . |
| 13 | It must be like an Ord 14 affidavit in the sense that it has to be sworn by the plaintiff or someone authorised to do so ( eg his solicitor or legal executive ) and if it is sworn by someone other than the plaintiff , the affidavit has to state specifically that the deponent is duly authorised by the plaintiff to make the affidavit on his behalf . |