Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | She manages her husband , who is rather eccentric to say the least , in a manner which suggests that he is officially still the head of the house . |
| 2 | I missed you is so easy to say . |
| 3 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 4 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 5 | Well that they any comment on the appearance of a woman they now think erm it 's rather difficult to say . |
| 6 | It 's practically impossible to say no to someone who 's actually loaded their rucksack into your boot and clipped on their seatbelt . |
| 7 | It 's probably true to say that some actors just do n't mix well with other actors or directors . |
| 8 | It 's probably true to say , is n't it , that anybody who 's going to be picking this up are going to be in the school system rather than in the private school system ? |
| 9 | Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin . |
| 10 | Unless you 're Peter Pan , in which case you probably believe in fairies as well , it 's probably fair to say that you are only young once . |
| 11 | Interestingly enough , even with a wide range of prices and types of hotel-style accommodation available , it 's probably fair to say that the majority of guests expect en suite bathroom facilities as standard . |
| 12 | It 's it 's probably easier to say what it does n't provide for . |
| 13 | Without wanting to appear cynical , it 's pretty safe to say that in the run up to elections , one expects the odd vote-catching ruse from politicians . |
| 14 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 15 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 16 | It is true however that the January survey which is erm which took place very recently erm , there were only fifteen vacancies in the subject in this in the country overall , it 's also true to say that of thirteen thousand one hundred religious education specialists in the country , only half of them were actually teaching their own subject . |
| 17 | erm I think it 's also true to say that if they came on Sunday and turned into the church hall for coffee and tea , they can smoke in there . |
| 18 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 19 | I think it 's best just to say it and run . |
| 20 | It 's perhaps fair to say as well that if if er er a member of the public knows that P C Smith or P C Jones is his local policeman , he would prefer to see P C Smith or P C Jones . |
| 21 | Without a crystal ball , it 's almost impossible to say which it will be , but we can offered some informed opinions . |
| 22 | Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future . |
| 23 | My guess is you may not need the hour to complete the er course work but er it 's always difficult to say when you set the thing , yeah ? |
| 24 | I think it 's therefore fair to say that perhaps even in Russell 's own eyes , his original epistemological programme , which occupied a great deal of his time and writing , between erm nineteen-twelve and erm the thirties , in fact broke down . |
| 25 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 26 | I think it 's quite hard to say , ‘ I feel all right about the way I look . ’ |
| 27 | It 's much nicer to say patronage , you promise to say patronage . |
| 28 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 29 | So they 're , I do n't know whether it 's , i it 's terribly reactionary to say that we really want one teletext cos your holidays , might they be coming up on Ceefax |
| 30 | It 's so hard to say when all along the line I 've been encouraged . |