Example sentences of "to say that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad ( and relieved ) to say that no-one has ( so far ) written again to tell me I 'm an idiot or that my advice was useless . |
| 2 | That 's not to say that we stop looking at it , and we 'll be looking in more and more detail at the workloads , matched up against the resources , as we get better information . |
| 3 | So that was to say that we 'd w |
| 4 | It ca n't be true to say that we chose our friends , |
| 5 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 6 | When my colleague to my right here , Roger and myself put forward a motion at last council on this issue ably led by our glorious leader to my left I would like to say that we 've set up . |
| 7 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 8 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 9 | I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints . |
| 10 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 11 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 12 | I was glad to be able to say that we had something for them in return — we were bringing a distinguished visitor in the person of George Turner , a Llangollen stationmaster in BR days , before the line was closed . |
| 13 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman was wrong to say that we had failed to consult on our proposals for the council tax . |
| 15 | No , I do n't think it 's the same Islam , it is just how you want to go about it erm in Kuwait , and I do n't want to say that we prefer our Islam more than what the Saudis do . |
| 16 | Just as if , if we are in a sort , team leader or a section head as I 've shown , it does n't mean to say that we hold all the knowledge , we can pass it on to others , who can he pass it on to somebody else although you ultimately may be responsible for the training of other people , you do n't need to do it all yourself do you , but unless you pass on skills , you 're gon na make a sort of a quite a vicious circle for yourself are n't ya ? |
| 17 | ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers . |
| 18 | That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts . |
| 19 | That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all . |
| 20 | And I have to say that we give our commitment very quickly and we would like to think that people also give erm their commitment . |
| 21 | I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's fair to say that we liked the thought of it going to somewhere like Embsay , which does n't have any other big engines , because it will do a good bit of flag flying for us there . ’ |
| 23 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 24 | I do not want to go over that ground again ; suffice it to say that we accept the Secretary of State 's assurance that the Government are making a genuine effort to find a mechanism to implement Lord Cullen 's recommendation 30 . |
| 25 | Suffice it to say that we think that at least one important human right can be described as a right — belonging equally to each human individual — to maximum ‘ positive freedom ’ , by which we mean the ability of people to make effective choices about their lives . |
| 26 | This is not to say that we did n't experience all the anguish you expect in your schooldays , the pains of unpopularity or difficulties with hated subjects . |
| 27 | a personal face of this whole thing , I I ought to say that we did ask the drug company to send some along or er and they said no er but |
| 28 | are we to say that we did n't want it to be Prince |
| 29 | Yeah , er well put it under any other business Erm nothing more about that one other to say that we seem to be on course for finishing er about the zero mark which is what we 're targetting . |
| 30 | Nineteen ninety three is gon na be the first year in which the full benefits of this cost cutting are gon na come through and whilst it 's always a continuing process and there will be some further redundancies , I am glad to say that we believe that the bulk of the redundancies are now behind us . |