Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] to say [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 2 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | it is not too fanciful to say that they need to be loved and welcome our presence . |