Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 're after , I think , is what you are naturally inclined to say , without conceptual hindsight . |
| 2 | Mind you it was only their wages are only comparable to say some wages that they get in nuclear power station . |
| 3 | You 're always free to say NO ! |
| 4 | ‘ If you ask the staff if you can use the toilets in an emergency they 're quite likely to say ‘ There 's a McDonald 's down the road , why do n't you try there ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | Now , I think you 're quite bold to say that in this company ! |
| 6 | I just know it , even though you 're too nice to say it to my face . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah I can still see you in flaming two year 's time simply because you 're too frightened to say anything to him , to my son . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Among MPs and peers , enough dupes or worse are always available to say that such and such a revered British institution — in this case , British justice — is a sham . |
| 10 | We saw in this chapter that the rich are more inclined to say that they would break an unjust law than the poor . |
| 11 | When politicians tell us to copy other European countries , the British are more likely to say ‘ Sod off ’ than ‘ Hear , hear ’ . |
| 12 | And go to words of meaning , erm and the descriptions of colours where men are more likely to say purple whereas women would describe it as aubergine or plum and go into more detail about the shading than the colour . |
| 13 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 14 | Thus high values of B seem to be associated with unusual situations and drivers going relatively slowly ( i.e. in these cases subjects are more likely to say ‘ No ’ than ‘ Yes ’ when they are in fact unsure whether they saw the film previously ) . |
| 15 | Americans are scrupulously careful to say nothing on the record about enlargement of the Community : that , they say , is a matter for the Europeans . |
| 16 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 17 | They are legally entitled to say either a receipt or some other evidence of purchase . |
| 18 | The silent witnesses to the suppressed past of the Czech town Decin on the river Elbe ( Teschen in German ) , are now free to say what they want , even speak German . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'm rather ashamed to say that almost all of my friends are in the business . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm hardly likely to say that they 're slim , am I , Stew ? ’ said Jack . |
| 22 | Item five erm I 'm also pleased to say that er Chris was the only person nominated to be Honorary Treasurer and it would give me great pleasure er to propose that he be elected Honorary Treasurer and may I have a seconder for that proposal please . |
| 23 | ‘ They have some fabulous ideas and are definitely on course , I 'm very pleased to say . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 'm very ashamed to say that most of my close friends , probably all of my close friends , are in the industry . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | 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 . |