Example sentences of "too [adj] to say [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 2 | Support from other UK insurance companies has been mixed — ‘ it is a very conservative sector ’ , he says — and it is too early to say whether the method will be generally accepted . |
| 3 | But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future . |
| 4 | It is too early to say whether IBM 's competitors in the database arena will be able to adapt their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost . |
| 5 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 6 | Corris says that there are talks with at least one of these companies , but is too early to say whether any will bite . |
| 7 | It is far too early to say whether this produces the right result ; only time and history will show . |
| 8 | All the same , it is far too early to say whether it is the vintage of the century or even of the decade . |
| 9 | It 's too early to say whether the ‘ intensive ’ model will become a regular feature of subject assessment , although early indications are favourable . |
| 10 | Richard Erb , Deputy Managing Director of the IMF , said that it was too early to say whether Russia could meet inflation or budget deficit targets for 1992 . |
| 11 | It is too early to say whether these increases in process costs will be offset by other efficiency gains . |
| 12 | ‘ It is still too early to say whether the peak in unemployment has passed , but the likelihood of sustained increases in unemployment in the months to come recedes with each monthly fall , ’ officials said in the June monthly monetary report . |
| 13 | Prof Carter described the laboratory evidence as really dramatic but said it is too early to say whether the same effect can be produced in patients . |
| 14 | Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Murdoch said it was too early to say whether the firm could be sold on as a going concern ; much depended on negotiating settlements on contracts . |
| 16 | It is too early to say if his eyesight will be affected . |
| 17 | The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said it was too early to say if this was the end of the upward trend in unemployment . |
| 18 | Too early to say until the incentives are known . |
| 19 | There were three babies with chronic lung disease in the random group and none in the regulated group , but the total in the study is too small to say if either figure is different from the expected incidence of about 10% in this population of babies . |