Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most cautious believe that it will stabilise at between 0.5 and one per cent of the total beer market and even the most bullish say that it will take more than five years to reach four per cent . |
| 2 | The sexual athletes — the men who have had more than 10 partners or who have sex at least 4 times a week — are the most likely to say they would have sex with a new partner without using a condom . |
| 3 | For example , they are the most likely to say that the balance of power is now tipped too much in favour of women and that women with young children should n't work . |
| 4 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 5 | They were also the most likely to say Dad would not make a good job of being a housewife and should be out at work ( 57pc pc compared to 38pc ) . |
| 6 | They were also the most likely to say the Government does not care about education ( 92 pc compared with 66pc ) . |
| 7 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 8 | They are also the most likely to describe themselves as well endowed , through the least likely to say that size is important to women . |
| 9 | There was more bad news on the health front as they were the least likely to say they try hard for a healthy diet ( 37pc compared with 24pc ) . |
| 10 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 11 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 12 | erm I , I do n't I , I would be a little unhappy saying the peasant still , in the nineteen forties , was st totally still bound by foreign economy |
| 13 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 14 | It is perhaps putting it a little high to say they are exercising judicial functions . |
| 15 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 16 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 17 | One of the things that 's perhaps a little difficult to say with that tape recorder running in the middle of the room , is , that this course offers , operates a sense of code of confidentiality , and I 'm not sure how this is going to work . |