Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [adj] to say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 2 | Defendants are often very keen to say that they will not pay for a disbursement in respect of a report that they have not seen . |
| 3 | Iraq would be much more justified to say that she spent lots of money on military equipment so that she could invade other countries like Iran to gain more land . |
| 4 | In fact it would be even more true to say that they conversed largely by the sign method , overcoming any difficulties which might have arisen over differences m mother tongues . |
| 5 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 6 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 7 | Upper socio-economic single girls were much more likely to say that they did not use soap and water because it would ruin their skin . |
| 8 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 9 | It is much more satisfactory to say that these statements show what the speaker believes or feels , if he is speaking sincerely and correctly . |
| 10 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ' |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |
| 18 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 20 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 21 | It is not too much to say that the probabilistic analyses must revise this into a belief that many effects are not made to happen . |
| 22 | In Billie Holiday 's 1936 recording of ‘ These Foolish Things ’ it is not too much to say that the melody is recomposed . |
| 23 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 24 | it is not too fanciful to say that they need to be loved and welcome our presence . |
| 25 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 26 | ‘ It is still too early to say whether the peak in unemployment has passed , but the likelihood of sustained increases in unemployment in the months to come recedes with each monthly fall , ’ officials said in the June monthly monetary report . |
| 27 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 28 | That is unfair , and it is also slightly sinister to say that , when somebody reaches a certain age , he can no longer receive care under the NHS . |
| 29 | It is also quite untrue to say that any foreigners obtained land . |
| 30 | It is far too early to say whether this produces the right result ; only time and history will show . |