Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adj] say [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's perhaps fair to say as well that if if er er a member of the public knows that P C Smith or P C Jones is his local policeman , he would prefer to see P C Smith or P C Jones . |
| 2 | Well , it 's only polite to say whether if you |
| 3 | It 's too early to say whether the ‘ intensive ’ model will become a regular feature of subject assessment , although early indications are favourable . |
| 4 | Now again it 's very difficult to say because jogging will not be any good to you unless you 're in the right condition to do jogging and unless you 've got the right conditions to jog . |
| 5 | It 's very difficult to say because we 've lost this end of the house and we 've lost the other wing . |
| 6 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it is usually impossible to say whether the effects of a lesion in one hemisphere , in terms of loss or impairment of a particular function , follow from the destruction of the true neural locus of that function , or instead reflect the influence of abnormal tissue on other brain areas that actually subserve the function in question . |
| 8 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 9 | The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines . |
| 10 | Support from other UK insurance companies has been mixed — ‘ it is a very conservative sector ’ , he says — and it is too early to say whether the method will be generally accepted . |
| 11 | It is too early to say whether IBM 's competitors in the database arena will be able to adapt their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost . |
| 12 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 13 | It is too early to say whether these increases in process costs will be offset by other efficiency gains . |
| 14 | Prof Carter described the laboratory evidence as really dramatic but said it is too early to say whether the same effect can be produced in patients . |
| 15 | It is too early to say if his eyesight will be affected . |
| 16 | But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said it was too early to say if this was the end of the upward trend in unemployment . |
| 21 | 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 . |