Example sentences of "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 ARE NOT OBLIGED TO SAY ANYTHING … ’ |
| 4 | ( You are not supposed to say , ‘ Hurrah , at last . |
| 5 | We are not prepared to say any more . ’ |
| 6 | Their Lordships are not prepared to say it could not . |
| 7 | It is absolutely clear that many Labour Members want taxes to be raised but are not prepared to say so . |
| 8 | I do not know any ( secondary ) school teachers who , in private , are not willing to say that they are substantially dissatisfied with the job that schools are doing , for at least a substantial proportion of pupils . |
| 9 | John Pitt , joint mangaing director of Anchor International , said : ‘ We are not willing to say anything which might prejudice our application . ’ |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats are not frightened to say how they would raise the finances to do that . |
| 11 | Investigating officers sifted through the debris of the workshops yesterday in an attempt to discover the cause of the fire but Detective Sergeant Andy Adams of Clacton police said : ‘ At this stage we are not able to say exactly how the fire started . |
| 12 | We are not afraid to say what needs to be said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We saw in this chapter that the rich are more inclined to say that they would break an unjust law than the poor . |
| 15 | When politicians tell us to copy other European countries , the British are more likely to say ‘ Sod off ’ than ‘ Hear , hear ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Americans are scrupulously careful to say nothing on the record about enlargement of the Community : that , they say , is a matter for the Europeans . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They are legally entitled to say either a receipt or some other evidence of purchase . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When I talk to archdeacons about this , they are quite likely to say ( with some notable exceptions ! ) , |
| 25 | We are quite ready to say no to people who have n't solved this problem , ’ he said . |
| 26 | We are very pleased to say our newsletter team has had two extra members this time . |
| 27 | And we have to confess Lord that , words are very easy to say and to sing |
| 28 | ‘ Parents are too frightened to say no . |