Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 2 | The judge said it was quite impossible to say that any error was shown by these matters on the face of the determination , and that the parties were , on a matter of opinion , bound by the opinion of their chosen expert . |
| 3 | It was virtually impossible to say aloud that one welcomed the death of a fellow human being , but she believed that was how Ayling had felt . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so easy to say I wanted to go to Australia , without really knowing what he meant . ’ |
| 5 | By the end of the 1980s it was nonetheless possible to say that the USSR was more directly involved in the affairs of the world community than at any previous time in her history , not only at a formal intergovernmental level but also through a variety of personal , commercial , sporting , scientific and other channels . |
| 6 | Paul Masters of BZW , the stockbroking arm of Barclays Bank , said it was too early to say what reductions in commission rates would be possible . |
| 7 | Most fund managers believed it was too early to say when they would consider buying London shares again . |
| 8 | But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future . |
| 9 | A Witham police spokesman said it was too early to say what caused the accident . |
| 10 | Richard Erb , Deputy Managing Director of the IMF , said that it was too early to say whether Russia could meet inflation or budget deficit targets for 1992 . |
| 11 | It was too early to say when he might return . |
| 12 | Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Murdoch said it was too early to say whether the firm could be sold on as a going concern ; much depended on negotiating settlements on contracts . |
| 14 | Though it was too early to say how BP would respond to the opportunities created by the Budget , he said it was looking at several projects for extra investment in North Sea fields already in production . |
| 15 | The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said it was too early to say if this was the end of the upward trend in unemployment . |
| 16 | I thought I thought it was too complicated to say to him . |
| 17 | It was perhaps untrue to say that he had learned it ; it had learned him . |
| 18 | Although it became heretical to deny that God could have created other worlds , it was as dangerous to say that He had . |
| 19 | The spokeswoman said it was therefore impossible to say if and when it would be broadcast , or how the production team would deal with the use of original footage or the identities of individual families or children , which is prohibited by law . |