Example sentences of "[adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared as though his way back would be painful to say the least but the owners let Homer get on with it and The Committee reappeared last November . |
| 2 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 3 | Another participant was an elderly Orcadian poetess prone to say very , very softly things such as ‘ life is like a glass of pure water ’ . |
| 4 | One last time the name is going to be talked about in the circles that bother about these things and it 's all to do with Mrs Thatcher who 's prone to say about her enemies vanity , vanity , all is vanity . |
| 5 | It seems to us quite unrealistic to say that he would have felt insulted . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be unrealistic to say we can absorb all the cost of the VAT charge , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be unrealistic to say we can absorb all the cost of the VAT charge , ’ he said . |
| 8 | This week , Faldo has been not exactly refusing interviews but making it abruptly and abundantly clear that he is willing to say nothing of import . |
| 9 | Prison officers will not necessarily know how long any person will be detained and immigration officers do not seem willing to say . |
| 10 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , none of the superpowers have been willing to say that they would not actually use these weapons in a second nuclear strike , on the grounds that for the deterrent to be credible the other side has to be convinced that a first nuclear strike would result in nuclear retaliation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 14 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 15 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 16 | If you pumped hard enough you could probably find some jackass willing to say he 'd be damned if he 'd ‘ let the niggers hold a barbecue on the White House lawn ’ . |
| 17 | John Pitt , joint mangaing director of Anchor International , said : ‘ We are not willing to say anything which might prejudice our application . ’ |
| 18 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 19 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 20 | We can now ask how far it is sensible to say that genes ‘ program ’ or ‘ control ’ development . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 22 | Is not it more sensible to say that we have responsible people out there with whom we have developed partnerships ? |
| 23 | Still Carrington could think of nothing sensible to say . |
| 24 | It is perfectly proper to say that , as a natural resource , gas is a state asset and to allow as much competition as possible in its exploitation . |
| 25 | Later , I heard Mrs Goreng coaxing Kaptan to say a few foreign sentences in front of his father . |
| 26 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 27 | It is perhaps putting it a little high to say they are exercising judicial functions . |
| 28 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 29 | But he is wrong to say that it is a gloss — especially as a rabbinic scholium ! — on the Sabbath service only , and to hang ( as he does ) all his review from it . |
| 30 | But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution . |