Example sentences of "[adj] say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now Theodora looked across at the Inspector , wondering just how much she was prepared to say to this man . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 3 | It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty exactly when , where or by whom the first pile rugs were made . |
| 4 | It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty exactly where , when and how the majority of rug designs were first evolved . |
| 5 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 6 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 7 | It 's hard to say at this point how many are now in prison as some are scattered and some gone underground . |
| 8 | I mean er they 've had so many problems injury wise I doubt whether they 've played the same tw the same team twice at any stage this season and er on the day with the players they 've got available they 're going to have a a major say in this league this season . |
| 9 | It also has a major say in academic provision , student welfare , accommodation and national education policy . |
| 10 | Videotaped recordings of what young and elderly say to each other and how they do so , will be analysed in ways , given the unique interdisciplinary co-operation involved , never achieved before . |
| 11 | Heisenberg had something helpful to say on this question . |
| 12 | Perhaps all that it is safe to say in this context is that very commonly around the world one finds an unfossiliferous quartzite conformably below fossiliferous Lower Cambrian and unconformably above a great variety of Precambrian rocks . |
| 13 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 14 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 15 | ( Just occasionally I may be able to say with reasonable confidence that a particular advertisement or campaign is quantifiably better at generating sales than another . |
| 16 | She quivered , then his gaze travelled past her , and she was able to say with quick energy , ‘ Daddy 'll climb right up again , he always does . |
| 17 | If the housing visit is carried out too early , say six months before the transfer date , landlords are unlikely to be able to say with any certainty whether property is likely to be available for rent . |
| 18 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 19 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 20 | It should also mean that when Mr , that 's it , says the nurses were marvellous , the nurses are able to say in all evidence , and with evidence to support their opinion , yes |
| 21 | One of the things that 's perhaps a little difficult to say with that tape recorder running in the middle of the room , is , that this course offers , operates a sense of code of confidentiality , and I 'm not sure how this is going to work . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that odours do pose a problem for environmental health but to what extent they affect the health of an individual exposed to an odour is difficult to say with any precision . |
| 23 | It would be difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn , achieved at considerable social cost , can be sustained . |
| 24 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 25 | The approach taken in the Act can lead to difficulties because , in many cases of works produced with the aid of a computer , it will not be possible to say with any certainty whether the work has a human author . |
| 26 | It would be possible to say of one Kufran ‘ He owned fifteen trucks ’ : but twelve of them were in transit between partners . |
| 27 | Spurgeon was right to say to that lady who left his church to join a church she felt was perfect : ‘ Well , Madam , when you find your perfect church do n't join it — you 'll only spoil it ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ In all honesty , though I should be loth to say of any man that he is capable of killing , I dare not say of any man that he is wholly incapable of it . |
| 29 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 30 | ' It is not , therefore , presumptuous to say with quiet confidence , ‘ I know that I belong to Christ . |