Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That kind of situation , Dr is entirely right to say to the general assembly , that kind of situation is utterly unforgivable , it 's utterly unforgivable . |
| 2 | Perhaps ‘ Thank you ’ and ‘ Sorry ’ , so easy to say to a stranger , are two of the most difficult words to say to our nearest and dearest . |
| 3 | Because of his fame , his history and his continued presence in the sport , as well as the strength of his personality , Emerson remained a figure ; but also the shadows lengthened about him and few who worked with him in those years have much good to say about their relationships with him or with his team . |
| 4 | John Taylor has something extremely important to say about these potential sources of offence : " We may learn to reformulate these irreducible convictions in the light of our dialogue . |
| 5 | What 's so difficult to say about ‘ private investigator ’ or ‘ Mr Quick ’ or even ‘ pal ’ , ‘ buddy ’ or ‘ sir ’ ? |
| 6 | It is extremely difficult to say in advance whether or not any particular action or series of actions will be regarded as disorderly conduct . |
| 7 | As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis . |
| 8 | Sviatoslav Richter ( DG made such a memorable recording of the piece , that others have had an almost impossible act to follow unless they too have had something comparably original to say about the work . |
| 9 | It is important to remember that it is often not possible to say with certainty whether a speaker has pronounced a syllabic consonant , a non-syllabic consonant or a non-syllabic consonant plus . |
| 10 | It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme . |
| 11 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 12 | While it is not difficult to say in general terms what the Council did under Henry VII , certain problems about its organization are less easily solved . |
| 13 | It is not true to say of oral cultures that there is a peculiar ‘ directness of relationship between meaning and referent ’ , that ‘ the meaning of each word is ratified in a succession of concrete situations ’ only , that meanings in oral cultures are always particular and specific . |
| 14 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 15 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 16 | If the new version of events is what they are now prepared to say on oath , you must accept it and reassess your case in the light of that knowledge . |
| 17 | In any case , it is perfectly intelligible to say in reply to someone 's persistent talk about " this chair " : Look here , that chair exists only in your imagination . |
| 18 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's nothing really radical to say about it , ’ said Lydia , not looking up from her letter . |
| 20 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 21 | Maurice Sendak also has a clear idea of his role ( Lorraine , 1977 , p. 152 ) : ‘ To be an illustrator is to be a participant , someone who has something equally important to say as the writer of the book — occasionally something more important , but certainly never the writer 's echo ’ . |
| 22 | Boiled Eggs , skulls & skinheads ( no doubt many more ) but skinhead was the wittiest , most descriptive & most difficult to say without sneering . |
| 23 | One of the things that 's perhaps a little difficult to say with that tape recorder running in the middle of the room , is , that this course offers , operates a sense of code of confidentiality , and I 'm not sure how this is going to work . |
| 24 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 25 | Or they 'd realize that it might be rather agreeable to say to visiting parents , ‘ That 's Noel Westerman — you know , Norman Ward Westerman 's son . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The biographer is absolutely right to say at the very beginning that Quisling is not at all difficult to understand . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |
| 29 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 30 | 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 |