Example sentences of "very [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And furthermore , Mr Stevens , and I am very sorry to say this , I have noticed your father 's nose . ’ |
| 2 | These conclusions are very relevant , because now I 'm very sorry to say that , under pressure from a certain radicalism , these deeper , more complex analyses are being neglected and very individual , subjective views hold sway . |
| 3 | Erm we set up I think a very successful service and if I could just mention a sad note here , me some members will know who was the county occupational therapy coordinator largely designed the service here and I 'm very sorry to say that er she died the other day but her service is very much a tribute to her and we do in fact have a large number of people who will want to come and work for us as OTs because it is a good service and I 'm sure that you will agree with that . |
| 4 | As a result of the central place of class in Marxist theory , as soon as Marxists argue that primitive societies are without class they are left with very little to say about these societies which is in any way distinctive . |
| 5 | He had very little to say to his other neighbours . |
| 6 | In philosophy , for example , there are numerous discussions of objects which refer to some observed attribute or perceptual property pertaining to things as such , but books with titles such as Words and Things ( e.g. Brown 1958 ; Gellner 1959 ) will be found to have very little to say about the social implications of things as objects , while having plenty to contribute to an understanding of the nature of words . |
| 7 | In making this categorical assertion I am admitting that , as a social anthropologist , I really have very little to say that touches on the roots of our problem . |
| 8 | Until comparatively recently , bargaining was a subject on which economic theory had very little to say . |
| 9 | ‘ But people I speak to over there have very little to say about Neil Kinnock and none of them have even heard of Paddy Ashdown . ’ |
| 10 | Callinicos is very careful to say , in at least two places in the book , that aesthetic judgement as to the value of a work of art is at least relatively independent of the cultural and philosophical critique of the bases from which it proceeds . |
| 11 | This silence has a sub-text when accompanied by a slightly smug buttoned-up look , implying subtly that if one were only free to utter , one might have something very interesting to say . |
| 12 | The deputy judge commented that Dr. Rao ‘ clearly was very doubtful to say the least that Mr. Winterbone had the necessary testamentary capacity on 18 April . ’ |
| 13 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
| 14 | But , you know , when you explain these concepts to the people who are part of that committee , or they are the chairman of that committee — it 's very easy to say , ‘ Yeah , that other committee is really bad . |
| 15 | It 's very easy to say that |
| 16 | ‘ But then , ’ she said , ‘ when you try to think what it is you 've got hold of , it 's not very easy to say . ’ |
| 17 | All very easy to say , but human nature being what it was , and her own curiosity playing a very large part of it , not so easy to do . |
| 18 | Yeah I mean I 'm not being cynical but that 's very easy to say . |
| 19 | I mean it , it would be very easy to say that basically you know I do n't know , the , the poor peasants banding around all peasants , you know Mao saw them and knew that this was where the , the core of erm the revolution |
| 20 | And we have to confess Lord that , words are very easy to say and to sing |
| 21 | I do think it 's very easy to say that sums of money are not financially significant . |
| 22 | I wanted very much to say to Colonel Vaughan . |
| 23 | So far as I am concerned , arguments that women 's studies should include management training and courses to help women to be more assertive and successful in public life ( like Margaret Thatcher ? ) do n't have very much to say about how the majority of women live our lives . |
| 24 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It may not be money that he wants ; and even if he would be satisfied with money , it may be very hard to say what would be a fair compensation for his loss , and a jury may not be the most suitable body for assessing it . |
| 27 | Well , it 's very hard to say . |
| 28 | Whether or not he fulfilled his part as judge and lawgiver , it is very hard to say : later generations spoke of the good laws of King Edward , but we can not tell if he deserved the compliment . |
| 29 | So as my red skims the pocket , he tries very hard to say ‘ Bad luck ’ . |
| 30 | I wo n't kid you , and it 's very hard to say good morning John how are you , when you 're thinking , and you 're thinking you stay your side of . |