Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 2 | The Americans did not want Britain to acquire weapons of her own , and , though they were not prepared to say so publicly , they were determined to make acquisition as difficult and expensive as possible . |
| 3 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 4 | Libraries with no training officers were more likely to say that decisions were made by chief executives , and to specifically note that local authority approval was needed . |
| 5 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 6 | It is interesting to note that detailed cross-tabulations of the main survey data ( not included in Appendix 1 ) showed that in general people who consider credit to be ‘ occasionally necessary ’ ( rather than either convenient or sensible , or never a good thing ) were more likely to say that any of the types would be difficult to arrange . |
| 7 | Similarly , schooled children were more likely to say ‘ they — round ’ than to itemise each member of the array ‘ this — round ; this — round ’ etc . |
| 8 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 9 | Has anything like this happened to you because you were n't able to say ‘ No ’ ? |
| 10 | But the officer noticed they were n't eager to say much . |
| 11 | They 've said things that were n't true to say , could n't they , I mean , they thought it too simple to even say . |
| 12 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 13 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 14 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 15 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he thought , if they did see them , most of the girls were too tactful to say anything . |
| 17 | But some of the lasses were too embarrassed to say . |
| 18 | The Landrat of Ebermannstadt in Upper Franconia , frank as usual in his comment , reported that people in his area Were too careful to say such things as ‘ Hitler will give us no peace till everything has had it ’ , but said instead ‘ there wo n't be any peace before … ’ , and meant the same thing . |
| 19 | ‘ It was so easy to say I wanted to go to Australia , without really knowing what he meant . ’ |
| 20 | It was perhaps untrue to say that he had learned it ; it had learned him . |
| 21 | The inquest jury was only able to say John Newton died accidentally by falling through a carriage door . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 23 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 24 | No , it was not possible to say when a commercially viable FBR would be built . |
| 25 | Second , we found that ill health was an important factor in the decision to retire early , although it was not possible to say whether or not it was the overriding factor . |
| 26 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 27 | The court in that case was quite happy to imply an air of confidence even though it was not possible to say how the confidential information ( that is , the prints taken from the engravings ) came into the defendant 's hands . |
| 28 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 29 | In view of the plan to get rid of a large chunk of the assets , it was not possible to say what the net cost of the investment would be , he added . |
| 30 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |