Example sentences of "[is] [adj] say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 2 | It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty exactly when , where or by whom the first pile rugs were made . |
| 3 | It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty exactly where , when and how the majority of rug designs were first evolved . |
| 4 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 5 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 6 | It 's hard to say at this point how many are now in prison as some are scattered and some gone underground . |
| 7 | Perhaps all that it is safe to say in this context is that very commonly around the world one finds an unfossiliferous quartzite conformably below fossiliferous Lower Cambrian and unconformably above a great variety of Precambrian rocks . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that odours do pose a problem for environmental health but to what extent they affect the health of an individual exposed to an odour is difficult to say with any precision . |