Example sentences of "is [adv] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 2 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 3 | Now , with the proposed acquisition of CGI , IBM is effectively saying that despite its vast army of surplus employees , it ca n't find 4,000 among with the skills , or the ability to acquire the skills to be found in an unexceptional middle-ranking software and computer services company — and the move is hardly a morale-booster for all the people within IBM that ply their trade in software and services . |
| 4 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 6 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 7 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 8 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 9 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 11 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 12 | It is normally said that as one goes further up this ascent of languages , the code becomes progressively more like a natural language such as English . |
| 13 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 14 | It is usually said that the introduction of NEP pacified the peasants , but the Famine had a quicker effect in this respect . |
| 15 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 16 | It is usually said that in the voice from heaven at the baptism of Jesus we have an example of the bath qol . |
| 17 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 18 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 19 | This is partly to say that Richard Chandos and his frequent companion-in-arms , George Hanbury , are commonplace adventurers compared with Rudolf Rassendyll , in spite of the resonance of Chandos 's name . |
| 20 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 21 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 22 | It is also said that the Vikings introduced the finchback characteristic to Normandy in the ninth or tenth century and , according to a detailed history of the Gloucester breed by Adam Stout , there could be a common ancestry with the finchbacked Longhorn of Lancashire through Scandinavian cattle brought to Shetland , Ireland and Lancashire by the Vikings . |
| 23 | It is also said that Moorcroft was shocked to find that his co-professor was wholly ignorant of all veterinary matters ; yet Moorcroft and Coleman had negotiated the terms of their joint appointment , and it is inconceivable that Moorcroft could have remained unaware of his future colleague 's lack of veterinary knowledge . |
| 24 | It is also said that in times when Russia has need of strength in battle , these horses will awake their masters and carry them to where they are needed . |
| 25 | It is also said that girls are more verbally adept and can express complex concepts more readily than boys . |
| 26 | It is also said that Jacqueline had begun writing to a young Glaswegian who really was in prison . |
| 27 | It is also said that they are able to exercise an element of independent supervision over inside management . |
| 28 | Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison . |
| 29 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 30 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |