Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] be [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 're going to draw some lines perhaps it would be reasonable to say well patients with a flow of greater than fifteen certainly are unlikely to be obstructed , and patients whose detrusor pressure is less than fifty would seem to fail to satisfy our criteria for obstruction , because obstruction in a urodynamic sense implies a high pressure and a low flow . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously it would be stupid to say we will not miss the Orrell lads , ’ admitted Grayson . |
| 3 | So it would be futile to say that no more than three or four , or at the very most five , of these categories were dealt with during the whole of the period of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 4 | The proliferation of controls , for example , is bound to add to the problems of command , control and communication in wartime ( as on a small scale it did in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ) , but how much so it would be hard to say . |
| 5 | Thus it would be true to say that the source of these modern difficulties is indeed the market economy , but on the other hand , on the evidence of the attempts at distinctions , it would not be true — it would in fact be seriously reductive — to say that the general market order has transformed all cultural production into a market-commodity type . |
| 6 | Thus it would be difficult to say that the second person of the trinity is somehow male and the third female . |
| 7 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 8 | However it would be correct to say that the application of natural justice was at a low ebb prior to the decision of the House of Lords in Ridge v. Baldwin . |
| 9 | Where there is a large number of transactions — the notice mentions 30,000 records — I do not think we should simply consider an isolated case where it would be impossible to say whether there had been a direct benefit from the acquisition of the wrappers or not . |