Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] 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 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 ’ .
4 Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’
5 Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not .
6 Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was .
7 I could n't say for certain what our smallest listed building is , but I suspect that some old wall-mounted pillar boxes will be strong candidates !
8 He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly .
9 Could n't say for sure . ’
10 There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen .
11 ‘ 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived .
14 ‘ I ca n't say for certain .
15 I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two …
16 He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain .
17 ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted .
18 First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite .
19 So far , McDevitt has been questioned and fingerprinted , but the FBI will not say for sure that he is a suspect .
20 They 're also , Mr Mayor , interestingly coming out in favour of the individual but I must admit I applaud that and at long last in some , admittedly very modest way , er they are moving , I wo n't say to fiscal responsibility , but at least they 're learning the lessons of the recklessness of the past of their policies .
21 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 ’ .
22 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 !
23 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 .
24 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 . ’
25 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 .
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