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

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1 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 .
2 It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
3 ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents .
4 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 .
5 It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries .
6 It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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