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 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 20 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 21 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 22 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 23 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed it is net too much to say that the traveller walking down the branching road becomes in the end an image of ‘ the Good ’ in Tolkien , and one opposed to the endless self-regarding circuits of the Ring . |
| 25 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not too much to say it 's the storm of the century , ’ Joe Friday , director of the National Weather Service , said . |
| 27 | An ’ you 're very small ; an' you have too much to say , so go to sleep . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If anything goes wrong , sir , I do n't think we 'll be having too much to say to each other when we 're in vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 29 | It would be too much to say the West has abandoned that plan ; some people still think it can be implemented . |
| 30 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |