Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adv] say [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better .
2 And it 's it 's almost like saying that the , if you take H R T er , this is in our sort of survey that you will in fact erm , reduce the instance of heart disease but ma , might you , in in fact , increase the risks of breast cancer .
3 It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention .
4 Economists say it 's too soon to say if the shopping boom marks the beginning of the end of the retail recession .
5 I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property .
6 It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience .
7 It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
8 ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents .
9 It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles .
10 It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries .
11 It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history .
12 Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war .
13 They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment .
14 It was also sometimes said that he was ‘ mediocre ’ and ‘ uninspired ’ .
15 A hospital spokesman said it was too soon to say whether there would be any permanent brain damage .
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