Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they |
| 2 | It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not enough to say ‘ I 'm sorry ’ . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not enough to say do n't have sex . |
| 5 | For some it 's just enough to say ’ I was there . ’ |
| 6 | Economists say it 's too soon to say if the shopping boom marks the beginning of the end of the retail recession . |
| 7 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 8 | It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence . |
| 9 | It is not enough to say merely ‘ I accuse . ’ |
| 10 | ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents . |
| 11 | It is not enough to say the words ‘ I suppose I could murder someone ’ ; we must own it within our hearts . |
| 12 | The third talk brought the comment : ‘ It is not enough to say to the hungry , ‘ Be fed ’ , or to the naked , ‘ Be clothed ’ . ’ |
| 13 | It is not enough to say , ‘ Divorce if your marriage does n't suit you , ’ for marriage is a one-flesh relationship . |
| 14 | It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles . |
| 15 | It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers . |
| 16 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 17 | It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries . |
| 18 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 19 | It is too soon to say when a decision whether to prosecute will be taken . |
| 20 | It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history . |
| 21 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 23 | A hospital spokesman said it was too soon to say whether there would be any permanent brain damage . |
| 24 | CORPORATE bankruptcies in Japan rose only 2.7 per cent in January and their resulting debt fell more than 40 per cent from a year ago , but analysts said that it was too soon to say the worst was over . |
| 25 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |