Example sentences of "[adv] able to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked with a man whose severe stroke left him only able to say ‘ Yes , yes , yes ’ . |
| 2 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 3 | The inquest jury was only able to say John Newton died accidentally by falling through a carriage door . |
| 4 | and you think he is the person from best able to say whose work is in this brochure ? |
| 5 | A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected . |
| 6 | Diplomat : able to say no without saying no ; not able to say yes until it 's certain ; very good at saying maybe and keeping the peace . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am not able to say that the steering group has achieved fair and equal representation of all its members . |
| 9 | She was not able to say when it left . ’ |
| 10 | Well I did n't propose that cut , so I 'm not able to say . |
| 11 | Hazlitt , facing death , was still able to say , proudly , that his last hopes or ideals were also his first ones . |
| 12 | And he is now able to say : ‘ I 'm afraid of nobody . ’ |
| 13 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 14 | Has anything like this happened to you because you were n't able to say ‘ No ’ ? |
| 15 | I was n't able to say Mass . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was n't able to say earlier this evening , when your dear sweet face was looking at me . |
| 17 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |
| 18 | He hesitated , barely able to say it ; the word was a violation in itself . |
| 19 | We are not yet able to say which of these two parameters changed at the glitches . |