Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 2 | I could n't say for certain what our smallest listed building is , but I suspect that some old wall-mounted pillar boxes will be strong candidates ! |
| 3 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 4 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 5 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 6 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 7 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ In all honesty , though I should be loth to say of any man that he is capable of killing , I dare not say of any man that he is wholly incapable of it . |
| 9 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 10 | Well it does here , I do n't know er , I would n't say in some of the parts of Harlow I would get that feeling , but then I am really a country person at heart and I do n't like towns anyway , so I 'm not really the best person to ask , no . |
| 11 | First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite . |
| 12 | In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't say for certain . |
| 14 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't say with any certainty where I did go , but it was n't home . |
| 16 | They 're also , Mr Mayor , interestingly coming out in favour of the individual but I must admit I applaud that and at long last in some , admittedly very modest way , er they are moving , I wo n't say to fiscal responsibility , but at least they 're learning the lessons of the recklessness of the past of their policies . |
| 17 | Please note that meetings will not be held on all of the dates given on the form , but I can not say at this early stage how many will actually need to take place . |
| 18 | I can not say with absolute certainty that Clare Mallender did not possess a photograph of me , but I can say that there was no reason why she should have done . ’ |
| 19 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 20 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |
| 21 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 22 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 23 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 24 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 25 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 26 | He 's also continued to improve , which is something you ca n't say about many of his peers . |
| 27 | This is an inherently vague and flexible concept and its uncertainty causes difficulties for the drafter , who can not say with absolute certainty that any particular clause will be effective . |
| 28 | Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , who is liaising with anti-terrorist officers , said : ‘ We ca n't say with any certainty that we have found them all . ’ |
| 29 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 30 | ‘ We can not say in each case exactly what the defendant did . |