Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 2 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 3 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 4 | Now it 's actually much more scriptural to say we have sinned against our neighbours . |
| 5 | Iraq would be much more justified to say that she spent lots of money on military equipment so that she could invade other countries like Iran to gain more land . |
| 6 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 7 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 8 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 9 | Upper socio-economic single girls were much more likely to say that they did not use soap and water because it would ruin their skin . |
| 10 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 11 | It is much more satisfactory to say that these statements show what the speaker believes or feels , if he is speaking sincerely and correctly . |
| 12 | It is perhaps also true to say that , underneath , Britain , in regarding the Messina plan as too ambitious , was also quietly confident — particularly after the collapse of the EDC and the Political Community — that the scheme would come to nought . |
| 13 | So how good to say that this new Chopin disc reveals a more composed and mature Gavrilov , someone able to storm high heaven , if necessary , without loss of refinement , someone in fact acutely aware that Polish passion in Chopin was counterbalanced with Gallic finesse . |
| 14 | It 's only too easy to say , oh yes , we can make chairs … we can make kitchens and three-piece suites … grand pianos , anything you like , but what we have to do is to pick out one thing that we think is a winner and actually do that properly . ’ |
| 15 | We were all too shocked to say anything more than ‘ Poor old Froggy ’ and ‘ Who on earth could have done it ? ’ |
| 16 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 17 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 18 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 19 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 20 | The suspense novel stops short of the pure thriller , a kind of writing that falls outside the scope of this book , but it is not always easy to say just where the line should be drawn . |
| 21 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 22 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 23 | When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries . |
| 24 | I 'm not really supposed to say anything about about my Grecian two thousand |
| 25 | Incidentally , now that I come to think further about it , it is not quite true to say there was no dispute as to who were the great butlers . |
| 26 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 27 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 28 | Its not quite true to say its absolutely free IMHO as folks with dialup internet connections or compuserve dialup have to pay telecoms charges . |
| 29 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 30 | It is not yet possible to say how common the practice of appointing absentee courtiers to administrative posts had become by 1603 . |