Example sentences of "[be] very [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 2 | I mean it , it would be very easy to say that basically you know I do n't know , the , the poor peasants banding around all peasants , you know Mao saw them and knew that this was where the , the core of erm the revolution |
| 3 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 4 | ‘ In a controlled state like Pakistan , when people land from Dubai by a plane whose number is given and the names of persons given , it would be very difficult to say Pakistan can not find them , ’ India 's foreign minister , Dinesh Singh , said . |
| 5 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 6 | It may not be money that he wants ; and even if he would be satisfied with money , it may be very hard to say what would be a fair compensation for his loss , and a jury may not be the most suitable body for assessing it . |
| 7 | ‘ They have some fabulous ideas and are definitely on course , I 'm very pleased to say . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm very pleased to say that the union er involved had actually pursued the appeal even though the woman had died , and won the appeal posthumously so that the backdated pay could be given to the widower in that case . |
| 9 | These conclusions are very relevant , because now I 'm very sorry to say that , under pressure from a certain radicalism , these deeper , more complex analyses are being neglected and very individual , subjective views hold sway . |
| 10 | Erm we set up I think a very successful service and if I could just mention a sad note here , me some members will know who was the county occupational therapy coordinator largely designed the service here and I 'm very sorry to say that er she died the other day but her service is very much a tribute to her and we do in fact have a large number of people who will want to come and work for us as OTs because it is a good service and I 'm sure that you will agree with that . |
| 11 | It 's something I 'm very proud to say that I am , cos I believe in equal rights and that 's what feminism is , is believing in equal rights for women . |
| 12 | I 'm very ashamed to say that most of my close friends , probably all of my close friends , are in the industry . |
| 13 | But as important as our joint interests are our shared values and I think a very good example of this is our common approach , er er , to the question of the Social Chapter for which the Labour opposition led , I may say , by two leading G M B spokesmen Jack and George the Labour opposition has fought long and hard for this in parliament , indeed , we have secured a vote on the question er , after the Queen 's ascent , and last month , I myself , as a guest of the Danish social democrats , took the argument to the continent in the Danish referendum , in the second Danish ref referendum , which I 'm very glad to say was won ! |
| 14 | Erm , we are indeed talking to Health Authority about the matters that were mentioned but can I come on to occupational therapists because I 'm very glad to say that erm we are able to recruit occupational therapists in this county . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm very happy to say that the lawyers did n't make a penny off this , ’ said Herwald . |
| 16 | It obviously believes that an emphasis on its citizens ' common humanity is essential to the Community ( it is very premature to say nation or State ) ; that is an old-fashioned belief , dating back to the nineteenth century , but it is consoling in these jarring , mean-spirited , unidealistic times . |
| 17 | It is very difficult to say . |
| 18 | ‘ It is possible that this incident might be linked with them , but it is very difficult to say . ’ |
| 19 | It is very difficult to say what part was played in these processes by notions of duty to assist kin , but the significance of the principle of mutual advantage , in understanding fluctuations in household composition , rather challenges the idea that people took relatives into their own home solely out of a sense of obligation towards them . |
| 20 | It is very difficult to say . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to say with certainty what they were at any particular moment . |
| 22 | Callinicos is very careful to say , in at least two places in the book , that aesthetic judgement as to the value of a work of art is at least relatively independent of the cultural and philosophical critique of the bases from which it proceeds . |
| 23 | Whether or not he fulfilled his part as judge and lawgiver , it is very hard to say : later generations spoke of the good laws of King Edward , but we can not tell if he deserved the compliment . |
| 24 | I think it 's very hard to separate the two , but it 's a big chicken and egg , to say which came first , the social conditions or the furnishings is erm is very hard to say , but they are , I mean like in that example that I just gave , they 're very strongly tied up . |
| 25 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 26 | Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment . |
| 27 | But , you know , when you explain these concepts to the people who are part of that committee , or they are the chairman of that committee — it 's very easy to say , ‘ Yeah , that other committee is really bad . |
| 28 | It 's very easy to say that |
| 29 | Yeah I mean I 'm not being cynical but that 's very easy to say . |
| 30 | I do think it 's very easy to say that sums of money are not financially significant . |