Example sentences of "[vb mod] not say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 2 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So far , McDevitt has been questioned and fingerprinted , but the FBI will not say for sure that he is a suspect . |
| 9 | Please note that meetings will not be held on all of the dates given on the form , but I can not say at this early stage how many will actually need to take place . |
| 10 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 11 | Kaplan can not say for sure , but he hopes that his work ‘ will encourage those conductors who say they are devoted to finding out Mahler 's true interpretive intentions to reassess their own respective approaches ’ . |
| 12 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |
| 13 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We can not say in each case exactly what the defendant did . |