Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 2 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 3 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 4 | It is perhaps putting it a little high to say they are exercising judicial functions . |
| 5 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 6 | One of the things that 's perhaps a little difficult to say with that tape recorder running in the middle of the room , is , that this course offers , operates a sense of code of confidentiality , and I 'm not sure how this is going to work . |