Example sentences of "[modal v] say [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must say war is an ordeal , ’ Lord John smiled at the Duchess from the sideboard . |
| 2 | Now I think it 's up to the G M B to push this debate out , and we should say energy is the lifeblood of the U K , not the lifeblood of the speculators in the City of London , or the Tory Party , it 's the lifeblood of the people in this hall , and the people outside , and I think we should support a proper balanced energy policy for the U K. |
| 3 | I 'll say hypocrisy is vile |
| 4 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 5 | ‘ In your case , I 'd say y'nose is too near y'butt ! ’ |
| 6 | But I 'd say funding is tight ’ . |
| 7 | The only thing I would say delegates is that the we will also swallow the goldfish and there 's a message in that for all of us . |
| 8 | And many would say Oxford is the perfect place to set it . |
| 9 | ‘ If you take sugar as having 100 per cent the right taste , then I would say sucralose is in the range of 70 to 75 per cent , with aspartame a little behind it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 10 | The , the only thing that I would say Chairman is that erm planning and er er the role of planning is related amongst other things to development and every single solitary er element in development has an effect , maybe only small and it may be distant , but does have an effect on er water falling as rain and thereby on run-off . |
| 11 | What I would say Chairman is that I will defend the right of the tenant farmers to make their own minds up , just as much as I will defend the rights of council house tenants to say what goes on in their houses . |
| 12 | Because just as I was saying , that Freud 's view was that , okay , there 's the id and that may be Hobbesian , but there 's also the ego , which if you like is , is more kind of Rousseauness it 's pro-social , and therefore I would say Freud is not a pessimistic , or an optimistic social thinker , but something in between . |
| 13 | They will say Lamb is being roasted for breach of contract . |
| 14 | I mean they 're not but let's say they b big packets of lots of electrons so we 're using things at erm let's say watts is equal to so many electrons per second . |
| 15 | Let's say X is was ten , I mean it 's not but let's say it was , we 'd have ten add two brackets ten add four . |
| 16 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 17 | Jesus has a uniquely intimate relationship with God , so that we can say Jesus is God . |
| 18 | Er all I can say chairman is that the County Council is is working within the approved structure plan strategy which is based on restraint , based primarily on housing restraint but I think that 's what the County Council has done in its er employment land proposals is to set certain parameters which appear to us to really reasonably meet requirements of this authority 's resident population . |