Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they 'd realize that it might be rather agreeable to say to visiting parents , ‘ That 's Noel Westerman — you know , Norman Ward Westerman 's son . |
| 2 | It would be so easy to say yes to everything he was asking of her ; she would n't have his love but she would have his arms round her all through the nights that , from now on , promised to be lonely . |
| 3 | It was ridiculous that this should be so difficult to say . |
| 4 | As late as 1865 , the botanist J. D. Hooker wrote a revealing letter to Darwin in which he complained of the stance taken by their contemporary , Alfred Russel Wallace , who had wondered that scientists should be so afraid to say what they think . |
| 5 | Instead of saying that a person feels a pain in his foot it might be less misleading to say that he has an in-the-foot pain . |
| 6 | We can examine whether the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 finds the same pattern ; we might expect , on the basis of this reasoning , that the more educated people would be less likely to say that they would break an unjust law . |
| 7 | It would be more correct to say that something which was used as the target has changed , for the " target " is a subjective designation and does not change until management decides to change it . |
| 8 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 9 | Surely it would be more accurate to say that he shifted from one theory to another , and that both formulations had their external , political aspect ? |
| 10 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 11 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 12 | It would be more accurate to say I have caught more big fish in daylight than in darkness , but that a lot of my daylight fish came as a result of fishing all night . |
| 13 | It would be more accurate to say that although we do not have a right to such things we do have freedom to do them . |
| 14 | It would be more accurate to say that it shows the decline of community and public practices . |
| 15 | Microsoft 's Jack Fogg claimed it would be more accurate to say that Windows NT is ‘ a better Unix than Unix ’ than ‘ a better Windows than Windows ’ , which is probably good news for Unix as well . |
| 16 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 17 | It would be more accurate to say that very few spent less than seven or eight years in the trade , the majority spent at least 10–12 years , while about a fifth remained in the trade for life . |
| 18 | Although it is true that the authority of istoria declined within the period covered by the exhibition , it would be more accurate to say that the development of the female nude demonstrates the substitution of classical mythology by a different kind of modern myth , replacing gods and heroes with the modern artist . |
| 19 | I do n't want to put a damper on your ambitions , but this species is very difficult to sex , and it may be more accurate to say you have two fish rather than a pair . |
| 20 | It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around . |
| 21 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 22 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 23 | Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the TNCs are ‘ indifferent ’ to democracy in the Third World as long as the people do not elect left wing governments ! |
| 24 | Yes er it would be more accurate to say he spoke to me . |
| 25 | I believe it would be more accurate to say that by using a solicitor , you 're dealing with a highly trained specialist in conveyancing and related matters , who , if not a property specialist in terms of marketing , may well employ one , a description which applies to no estate agent , let alone a ‘ handful ’ . |
| 26 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 27 | It may be more true to say that they are not over-stocked , which is a different matter entirely . |
| 28 | It might be argued by some that his approach was too prosaic , but it would perhaps be more true to say that he cloaked classical ideals in the trappings of his own environment . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps , but I think it would be more apt to say that I 'm disillusioned . |
| 30 | Given that we do indeed believe that the flipping and the starting each occurred , it is also true , and would certainly be more natural to say , that since the wipers started to work , the switch was flipped . |