Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only too easy to say , oh yes , we can make chairs … we can make kitchens and three-piece suites … grand pianos , anything you like , but what we have to do is to pick out one thing that we think is a winner and actually do that properly . ’ |
| 2 | It is perhaps also true to say that , underneath , Britain , in regarding the Messina plan as too ambitious , was also quietly confident — particularly after the collapse of the EDC and the Political Community — that the scheme would come to nought . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is much more satisfactory to say that these statements show what the speaker believes or feels , if he is speaking sincerely and correctly . |
| 5 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 6 | It is not yet possible to say how common the practice of appointing absentee courtiers to administrative posts had become by 1603 . |
| 7 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 8 | The suspense novel stops short of the pure thriller , a kind of writing that falls outside the scope of this book , but it is not always easy to say just where the line should be drawn . |
| 9 | Incidentally , now that I come to think further about it , it is not quite true to say there was no dispute as to who were the great butlers . |
| 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 | When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I hope it is not too late to say yes , I 'd like very much to have dinner on Friday and I too feel we 've been rather silly and it has all been a misunderstanding … ’ |
| 17 | it is not too fanciful to say that they need to be loved and welcome our presence . |
| 18 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 19 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 20 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 21 | Well , if it 's not too late to say it , happy new year . |
| 22 | ‘ But then , ’ she said , ‘ when you try to think what it is you 've got hold of , it 's not very easy to say . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 25 | It is clearly very difficult to say how much of this discrimination is the result of policy decisions by employers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is also very difficult to say how successful this would be within the current recognition system . |
| 28 | It is also quite untrue to say that any foreigners obtained land . |
| 29 | But you never know , it 's really too early to say , but all of us have our little musical platforms . ’ |
| 30 | It 's really too early to say . |