Example sentences of "it 's [adv] [adj] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably true to say that some actors just do n't mix well with other actors or directors . |
| 2 | Unless you 're Peter Pan , in which case you probably believe in fairies as well , it 's probably fair to say that you are only young once . |
| 3 | Interestingly enough , even with a wide range of prices and types of hotel-style accommodation available , it 's probably fair to say that the majority of guests expect en suite bathroom facilities as standard . |
| 4 | It 's not possible to say that U2 sound like blah , which is great . |
| 5 | And well , it 's not nice to say that a girl is fat these days , but she was all ample proportioned we 'll put it like that . |
| 6 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 7 | He says that a substantial amount has been paid in benefits , it 's not true to say that they owe the tenants a large amount of arrears . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the liquidator of Continental , Cork Gully , said : ‘ It 's not true to say that the club wo n't get any money but at the moment we do n't know how much any pay-out will be . ’ |
| 9 | Without wanting to appear cynical , it 's pretty safe to say that in the run up to elections , one expects the odd vote-catching ruse from politicians . |
| 10 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 11 | erm I think it 's also true to say that if they came on Sunday and turned into the church hall for coffee and tea , they can smoke in there . |
| 12 | I think it 's therefore fair to say that perhaps even in Russell 's own eyes , his original epistemological programme , which occupied a great deal of his time and writing , between erm nineteen-twelve and erm the thirties , in fact broke down . |
| 13 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 14 | So they 're , I do n't know whether it 's , i it 's terribly reactionary to say that we really want one teletext cos your holidays , might they be coming up on Ceefax |
| 15 | Of course , erm there 's a lot more individual responsibility is needed than that , but it 's too simplistic to say that that erm to smile upon these people who have problems would solve everything erm but erm to make it your own responsibility to find out more and to find out the ways in which you can help I think is very important and is everybody 's responsibility . |
| 16 | I do think it 's very easy to say that sums of money are not financially significant . |