Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as 1865 , the botanist J. D. Hooker wrote a revealing letter to Darwin in which he complained of the stance taken by their contemporary , Alfred Russel Wallace , who had wondered that scientists should be so afraid to say what they think . |
| 2 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 3 | It would be more accurate to say I have caught more big fish in daylight than in darkness , but that a lot of my daylight fish came as a result of fishing all night . |
| 4 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 5 | I do n't want to put a damper on your ambitions , but this species is very difficult to sex , and it may be more accurate to say you have two fish rather than a pair . |
| 6 | Yes er it would be more accurate to say he spoke to me . |
| 7 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It would be too extreme to say I was unhappy . |
| 11 | It would obviously be too insensitive to say something in front of the girl . |