Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the detailed survey cross-tabulations showed that , when they did have comments to make , old people , unskilled manual workers and — particularly , though hardly surprisingly — people without bank accounts were all specially likely to say that bank loans would be difficult to arrange . |
| 2 | It is all very well to say that local circumstances will dictate responses but there will be many similar circumstances from place to place , so that there is clear benefit in adopting common approaches if not standard solutions . |
| 3 | It is all very well to say that terms like astronaut and artisan conjure up , for understandable reasons , male rather than female associations . |
| 4 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
| 5 | Well , it 's all very well to say that accidents like that should n't happen , but … |
| 6 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 7 | That it 's all very well to say to Consultants last year or some it , it wo n't even be very little value to the economy of Hertfordshire but the position changes with the closure of for example erm |
| 8 | It 's all very well to say they can appeal but that 's not easy |
| 9 | It is all very well to say to any people organisation you shall become more and more efficient . |
| 10 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
| 11 | All very easy to say , but human nature being what it was , and her own curiosity playing a very large part of it , not so easy to do . |
| 12 | Recently in October 1976 , her sister living in America , asked for a photograph of the old building which 1 am pleased to say was dispatched and a reply received to say she now carries it everywhere showing it to everyone . |