Example sentences of "[pron] say [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dare I say that a set of vintage pickups and a lick of conductive paint would almost complete the sonic illusion , in the same way that burying the neck and body in peat for a few months would crown the guitar 's appearance ! |
| 2 | Can I say that the purpose of the E I P is to examine the various issues that have been id identified for discussion . |
| 3 | Sir , — In reply to the letter headed Ugly anti-hunt shock tactics , may I say that the aim of the Surrey Wildlife Protection Group is to enlighten the public to the true facts , by displaying posters and handing out leaflets . |
| 4 | ‘ What can I say that the General does n't know ? |
| 5 | And I told her once , I said I 'm sick to death of hearing you say that every time I come ! |
| 6 | coul could n't you say that a matter of community law erm er simply a , a , a prohibition of that kind of er just has no effect just as far as erm any brief community |
| 7 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 8 | Presumably it would be necessary to ask questions like this : ‘ Would you say that the word ‘ chip ’ begins with one sound , like ‘ tip ’ and ‘ sip ’ , or with two sounds , like ‘ trip ’ and ‘ skip ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Would you say that the production of a novel is something akin to the process of childbirth ? ’ |
| 10 | Did you say that the ratepayers approved ? |
| 11 | I mean , would you say that the non-existence of God can be proved ? |
| 12 | Did n't she say that the college was , they were paying the college to ? |
| 13 | Dare one say that the England pack , in the defeat of Ireland , had these attributes to a greater extent than the Wales backs in the defeat by France ? |
| 14 | In none of the primary schools studied by Clarricoates could one say that the gender code was characterized by weak classifications ( i.e. equality between the sexes ) and weak frames ( freedom to negotiate the definitions of gender ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 16 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 17 | Compared with how the German coal industry is subsidised — its coal is produced at no less than £89 a tonne compared with £42 a tonne for deep-mined coal in Britain — how can we say that the industry is on a level playing field in Europe ? |
| 18 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |
| 19 | ‘ Do we say that the penny possesses the piggy bank ? |
| 20 | Had he been in his place on Tuesday , when my right hon. Friend made the opening speech on the Loyal Address , he would have heard him say that the Government would introduce a measure to deal with the young thugs , as my hon. Friend calls them , who indulge in joyriding , a practice which hon. Members in all parts of the House deplore ; those young people will , therefore , be offending . |
| 21 | Will he say that the United Kingdom will not agree to Turkish membership of the EC so long as any Turkish troops are present in Cyprus against the wishes of the present sovereign Government of Cyprus ? |
| 22 | Deputy Environment Minister Opah Rushesha did not name the countries , nor did he say if the government had accepted the offers . |
| 23 | What 's it say that the people who do n't like being in groups |
| 24 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 25 | Either , that time was substantially different in those days , let us say that a minute then , would be equivalent to an hour and a half now ; or that somehow Shakespeare had ‘ time on his side ’ . |
| 26 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
| 27 | And let us say that the meaning of a statement is valuational if and only if there is a certain attitude to which it is related just as a cognitive statement is related to a certain belief . |