Example sentences of "be [adv] [det] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 2 | It would be too much to say the West has abandoned that plan ; some people still think it can be implemented . |
| 3 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 4 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 5 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 6 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 7 | There … there is … is so much to say … ’ |
| 8 | There 's not much to say about it other than what I do is plug it in ! |
| 9 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 10 | We are left with the unspecific practical objection , the objection that is as much to say that only seeing is believing . |
| 11 | Although in much television advertising there is n't much to say , it is still important to be able to write . |
| 12 | There is n't much to say . |
| 13 | It is quite another to say that an absence of a power of remit vested in the House is an insuperable barrier to the Court of Appeal exercising its own jurisdiction to relist . |
| 14 | It is one thing to provide ( as in section 6(3) ( b ) ) that in the absence of special arrangements parental preferences is to prevail over a desire to keep places vacant on , for example , religious grounds : it is quite another to say that when some parental preferences are to be denied in any event as must be the case under section 6(3) ( a ) ) the choice of those parental preferences which are to prevail and those which are to be defeated should not be based on religious criteria . |
| 15 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 16 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 17 | There was so much to say — there was too much to say . |
| 18 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 19 | There was n't much to say . |
| 20 | There was so much to say — there was too much to say . |