Example sentences of "too [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I muse but am too weedy to say . ) |
| 2 | The family was still too upset to say anything about the accident . |
| 3 | But the only officer on duty was a woman — and the killer was too shy to say what he had done , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Syl was away all day with our host , shooting something , and I was too shy to say I was tired and would like to go and sleep in my room . |
| 5 | But the penguin felt too shy to say more . |
| 6 | We should , as our French guest realised but was too polite to say , have eaten in lovely hilltop Gassin where vine-hung terrace restaurants offered menus gastronomiques and very chic settings for around £20 per head . |
| 7 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | It is too strong to say that it has been corrupted — after all , James I dished out so many knighthoods ( 2,600 ) that the Venetian ambassador to London thought the knights ‘ no longer distinguishable from common people ’ — but at best it is dull . |
| 9 | It is not too strong to say that it is impossible to test Marx 's thesis regarding the labour theory of value at a micro-economic level because Marx and Marxists have totally disregarded any element of profit which may result from risk-taking . |
| 10 | It is not too strong to say that the ultimate economic problem — choice under conditions of scarcity — results from this radical rupture in the natural world and in human personality . |
| 11 | perhaps it is not too strong to say that in national firms or boutiques the culture is defined by the owner or founder of the business . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The Landrat of Ebermannstadt in Upper Franconia , frank as usual in his comment , reported that people in his area Were too careful to say such things as ‘ Hitler will give us no peace till everything has had it ’ , but said instead ‘ there wo n't be any peace before … ’ , and meant the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if they think it 's a piece of trash ’ , said one dealer who begged not to be identified , ‘ they 'll all be too afraid to say it ’ . |
| 16 | She did n't understand but she felt too embarrassed to say so . |
| 17 | But some of the lasses were too embarrassed to say . |
| 18 | Actually I feel too embarrassed to say much about this quiz since both my wife failed to recognise Aberystwyth station — a place we go to about once a week ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most fund managers believed it was too early to say when they would consider buying London shares again . |
| 21 | Or is it too early to say ? |
| 22 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But you never know , it 's really too early to say , but all of us have our little musical platforms . ’ |
| 25 | Claudette Schmitt , Paris Match 's legal adviser , said : ‘ It 's too early to say what we 'll do . ’ |
| 26 | Chief executive David Glencross said : ‘ It 's too early to say Channel 5 is dead . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future . |
| 29 | It is too early to say if his eyesight will be affected . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't even talk about his future in the game because it 's too early to say . |