Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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1 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
2 | It does seem rather odd to say that death is for the good of the person involved . |
3 | It is perhaps putting it a little high to say they are exercising judicial functions . |
4 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
5 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
6 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
7 | That kind of situation , Dr is entirely right to say to the general assembly , that kind of situation is utterly unforgivable , it 's utterly unforgivable . |
8 | How much simpler to say , ‘ I never give to charities . ’ |
9 | This subject has been debated many times over many years and , after much deliberation , it was felt less confusing to say ‘ Basket Only ’ rather than stipulate a specific number of items [ at least for the majority of our stores ] as this tended to cause confrontations between some cashiers and customers as to the quantity of items in the basket . |
10 | Well , it 's only polite to say whether if you |
11 | If Mr Hussein has decided to do so — by ordering a full or partial withdrawal from Kuwait before January 15th — he will find it less humiliating to say so to the European Community , or to Arab mediators , than to Mr Baker . |
12 | We had so much to say — and so little to say . |
13 | This is Millie 's father , coming up Hyde Hill Lane of an evening so wearily , with so little to say for himself ; yet here he is sliding through the grass with such snake-like speed and resourcefulness . |
14 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It is , may I suggest , much easier to say goodbye to a face than to a wooden box . |
17 | An environmental change can ease this : it is much easier to say that you do n't have any sweets in the house than to say ‘ no ’ to a child who knows that they are in the cupboard . |
18 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
19 | Wolpe , at a different end of the political spectrum , has only this to say about higher education : |
20 | It was perhaps untrue to say that he had learned it ; it had learned him . |
21 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
22 | Nature has so much to say . ’ |
23 | Extensive use is made here in this chapter of his posthumously published work ( Bulmer , 1986 ) because it has so much to say of immediate and striking significance to our theme . |
24 | There was so much to say — there was too much to say . |
25 | Black Michael looked blacker than ever today — because you and the Princess had so much to say to each other . ’ |
26 | We had so much to say — and so little to say . |
27 | First , we will set down the Establishment perspective of the constitutional authorities — the perspective , that is , of those who do so much to say what is the constitution in the absence of a written legal document . |
28 | ‘ The silent nymph you were six years ago fascinated me , but the woman with so much to say for herself is infinitely more stimulating . ’ |
29 | ‘ I have so much to say that I can not tell you half in a letter . |
30 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |