Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] say with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 2 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Just could n't say with any certainty . ’ |
| 4 | Danny O'Dell shook his head , and Ruth prayed that her son would not say with devastating candour : ‘ Your cake tastes funny ’ — then breathed again as he said politely , ‘ No more , thank you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 5 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't say with any certainty where I did go , but it was n't home . |
| 7 | Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , who is liaising with anti-terrorist officers , said : ‘ We ca n't say with any certainty that we have found them all . ’ |
| 8 | I can not say with absolute certainty that Clare Mallender did not possess a photograph of me , but I can say that there was no reason why she should have done . ’ |
| 9 | This is an inherently vague and flexible concept and its uncertainty causes difficulties for the drafter , who can not say with absolute certainty that any particular clause will be effective . |
| 10 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |