Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 2 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 3 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 4 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 5 | The suspense novel stops short of the pure thriller , a kind of writing that falls outside the scope of this book , but it is not always easy to say just where the line should be drawn . |
| 6 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 7 | When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries . |
| 8 | I 'm not really supposed to say anything about about my Grecian two thousand |
| 9 | Incidentally , now that I come to think further about it , it is not quite true to say there was no dispute as to who were the great butlers . |
| 10 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 11 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 12 | Its not quite true to say its absolutely free IMHO as folks with dialup internet connections or compuserve dialup have to pay telecoms charges . |
| 13 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 14 | It is not yet possible to say how common the practice of appointing absentee courtiers to administrative posts had become by 1603 . |
| 15 | We are not yet able to say which of these two parameters changed at the glitches . |
| 16 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 17 | It is not too strong to say that it is impossible to test Marx 's thesis regarding the labour theory of value at a micro-economic level because Marx and Marxists have totally disregarded any element of profit which may result from risk-taking . |
| 18 | It is not too strong to say that the ultimate economic problem — choice under conditions of scarcity — results from this radical rupture in the natural world and in human personality . |
| 19 | perhaps it is not too strong to say that in national firms or boutiques the culture is defined by the owner or founder of the business . |
| 20 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 21 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service , said . |
| 24 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 26 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 27 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 28 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 29 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 30 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |