Example sentences of "be [adv] early to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be too early to say , but researchers from Lima 's Universidad del Pacifico say that the informals are amazingly responsible , and punctually keep up with the interest payments on their loans . |
| 2 | Whether or not the present library symbol and logo campaigns achieve the same success and identity , is rather early to say , but if the choice of symbol is a good and appealing one then it could bring the public library to wide attention on a host of everyday products , street-signs etc . |
| 3 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is too early to say if his eyesight will be affected . |
| 7 | It is too early to say whether IBM 's competitors in the database arena will be able to adapt their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost . |
| 8 | Similarly , it has backtracked on its statement that services are to go live this autumn : the official line is that it is too early to say when they will be available . |
| 9 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 10 | Corris says that there are talks with at least one of these companies , but is too early to say whether any will bite . |
| 11 | Although it is too early to say what impact it will have on the discipline , it has stimulated a powerful line of thought , and one which will concern us in later chapters . |
| 12 | It is too early to say what the government response will be to this report in terms of committing resources and policy initiatives . |
| 13 | It is too early to say exactly what powers the committee will have , or indeed how sympathetic they will be to the aim of preserving such areas , but this sets a dangerous precedent . |
| 14 | ‘ It is too early to say , Chieh Hsia . |
| 15 | It is too early to say how much the experience of the past will influence future developments ( von Borcke , 1990 , pp. 61–6 ) . |
| 16 | The Vet School is also collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs that speed tendon healing , and although the results are promising it is too early to say anything specific . |
| 17 | It is too early to say whether these increases in process costs will be offset by other efficiency gains . |
| 18 | ‘ Whether there will be any jobs for them at the end of the day is too early to say but at least they will be getting quality training which can be a kick-start in life . ’ |
| 19 | But as to whether jobs will be affected it is too early to say . ’ |
| 20 | Prof Carter described the laboratory evidence as really dramatic but said it is too early to say whether the same effect can be produced in patients . |
| 21 | Well , I think that it 's , this is first year after the tremendous increase of fees which the Government imposed upon us erm last year erm increase about threefold , and erm it really is too early to say what has happened even this year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Claudette Schmitt , Paris Match 's legal adviser , said : ‘ It 's too early to say what we 'll do . ’ |
| 24 | Chief executive David Glencross said : ‘ It 's too early to say Channel 5 is dead . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't even talk about his future in the game because it 's too early to say . |
| 26 | Last night , Mick 's mother Eva said : ‘ It 's too early to say anything . |
| 27 | It 's too early to say more until we get the results of the post-mortem examination and the forensic tests . |
| 28 | Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’ |
| 29 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |