Example sentences of "[adv] early to say " in BNC.

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1 Whether or not the present library symbol and logo campaigns achieve the same success and identity , is rather early to say , but if the choice of symbol is a good and appealing one then it could bring the public library to wide attention on a host of everyday products , street-signs etc .
2 Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment .
3 Paul Masters of BZW , the stockbroking arm of Barclays Bank , said it was too early to say what reductions in commission rates would be possible .
4 Most fund managers believed it was too early to say when they would consider buying London shares again .
5 Or is it too early to say ?
6 It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said .
7 In the context of user education in schools , however , where there is still some substantial funding and many of the projects have yet to be finally and fully reported , the impact will probably be somewhat different ; although because of the slowness of the dissemination process it is too early to say how much and in what way .
8 But you never know , it 's really too early to say , but all of us have our little musical platforms . ’
9 Claudette Schmitt , Paris Match 's legal adviser , said : ‘ It 's too early to say what we 'll do . ’
10 Chief executive David Glencross said : ‘ It 's too early to say Channel 5 is dead . ’
11 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 .
12 But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future .
13 It is too early to say if his eyesight will be affected .
14 ‘ I ca n't even talk about his future in the game because it 's too early to say .
15 Last night , Mick 's mother Eva said : ‘ It 's too early to say anything .
16 It 's too early to say more until we get the results of the post-mortem examination and the forensic tests .
17 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 .
18 Similarly , it has backtracked on its statement that services are to go live this autumn : the official line is that it is too early to say when they will be available .
19 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 .
20 Its too early to say which bits these will be , says Guglielmi , but the most obvious choices , he suggests , are the big functional blocks such as graphics subsystems or the development environment .
21 Corris says that there are talks with at least one of these companies , but is too early to say whether any will bite .
22 Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’
23 Its too early to say which bits these will be , says Guglielmi , but the most obvious choices , he suggests , are the big functional blocks such as graphics subsystems or the development environment .
24 Its too early to say which bits these will be , says Guglielmi , but the most obvious choices , he suggests , are the big functional blocks such as graphics subsystems or the development environment .
25 However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded .
26 A Witham police spokesman said it was too early to say what caused the accident .
27 It is far too early to say whether this produces the right result ; only time and history will show .
28 Although it is too early to say what impact it will have on the discipline , it has stimulated a powerful line of thought , and one which will concern us in later chapters .
29 ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend .
30 It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives .
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