Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am right then to say ‘ The chicken is distressed by its close confinement , is a dual acknowledgement of sympathy at the presence of behavioural prototypes similar to those of distressed people , and a strong veterinary hint of a possible cure ; but no more . |
| 2 | I sha n't force you to but erm it 's an important document and the biggest problem about wills is that when anybody gets to look at it you 're not around to say what you meant . |
| 3 | He is right also to say that the value is not just for Yarrow . |
| 4 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 5 | I 've got no I I 've got no problem with that Robert because there 's enough there to say you know that you 've got erm cut your teeth already on sales . |
| 6 | Which latter is not however to say that ‘ correct thinking ’ overturns society . |
| 7 | This is not simply to say that emotions are expressed , but that emotions are reformed , cleansed , redirected and redeemed . |
| 8 | For that is not necessarily to say that the Consumers ' Movement 's treatment of production as incidental to its interests was , on a strategic view of the objectives of Co-operation , right . |
| 9 | Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi may , from his actions , be presumed to have disapproved of Seyh Bedreddin , which is not necessarily to say that he disapproved of Molla Fenari . |
| 10 | It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence . |
| 11 | It is not enough to say merely ‘ I accuse . ’ |
| 12 | ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents . |
| 13 | It is not enough to say the words ‘ I suppose I could murder someone ’ ; we must own it within our hearts . |
| 14 | The third talk brought the comment : ‘ It is not enough to say to the hungry , ‘ Be fed ’ , or to the naked , ‘ Be clothed ’ . ’ |
| 15 | It is not enough to say , ‘ Divorce if your marriage does n't suit you , ’ for marriage is a one-flesh relationship . |
| 16 | It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles . |
| 17 | It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers . |
| 18 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 19 | It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries . |
| 20 | For some it 's just enough to say ’ I was there . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not enough to say ‘ I 'm sorry ’ . ’ |
| 23 | It 's not enough to say do n't have sex . |
| 24 | Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they |
| 25 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 26 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 27 | It is too soon to say when a decision whether to prosecute will be taken . |
| 28 | It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history . |
| 29 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |